St Margaret’s Episcopal Church Rosyth’s fund raising cookery book called the ‘Stone Soup Cookery Book’.
The stone soup story was told to St Margaret’s Rosyth’s congregation at our Harvest Thanksgiving service. It is a story about sharing. So what better way to share love than by sharing food in recipe form.
The stone soup story starts with a traveller who is hungry. He asks people in a village for something to eat. They are very reluctant because they have had a poor harvest. So, the traveller gets the village together and says he will make them stone soup. He gets a pot and some water and chooses a big stone to put in with the water in the pot. He starts to stir briskly over a fire. While he is doing this he suggests the soup would be better with a carrot to go with the stone, someone runs off to get a few carrots. They go in the pot. A wee while later, the traveller suggests a bit of turnip. Once again a villager goes off to get turnip. Before long the soup has carrot, turnip, lentils, onion and some meat in the pot along with the stone . The traveller shares the soup and the whole village enjoys it very much and is fed.
Could the towns and villages in our diocese do the same and share some of their favourite recipes so they can put them in St Margaret’s Stone Soup Recipe Book? (the recipes don’t have to be for soup, any favourite cake recipe for instance would be lovely). Thank you Valerie Leslie
Please send your recipes to bishopsec@standrews.anglican.org for forwarding to Valerie
