The Stone Soup story does not appear in any of the major eighteenth- or nineteenth-century collections of folk tales. Where does the original Stone Soup story come from? Is it a genuine folk tale in the sense that it had a long life in an oral tradition before being published in print? Or is it a creation of authors writing for hire? Or a bit of both? I think it is probably a bit of both. Stone Soup is an Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 1548 folktale. Folklorists place the Stone Soup story within the “clever man” category of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther folklore classification system that they use to organize the entire folkloric tradition. This is the aspect of the story that folklorists have focused on. The Stone Soup story revolves around a clever man with a charismatic personality who can get people to help him when their first instinct is not to. You can listen to their lively retelling of the tale on Megaphone here or at iTunes here! Origin of the Stone Soup Folktale Title page to the 1808 British magazine with the first English version of the Stone Soup story The recipe published in 1808 is quite similar to the one in the version of the story made by the By Kids For Kids Story Time podcast in 2019. When the soup is made the stone may be thrown away.’ Published in The American magazine of wit, 1808. ‘ Take a large stone, put it into a sufficient quantity of boiling water properly season it with pepper and salt add three or four pounds of good beef, a handful of pot-herbs, some onions, a cabbage, and three or four carrots. ‘Give me a piece of paper’ (said the traveler) ‘and I’ll write it down for you,’ which he did as follows:-A receipt to-make Stone Soup.

“Stone Soup,” engraving by Walter Melion for the cover of the first issue of Stone Soup Some Recipes for Stone Soup from 1732, 1808–and 2019!īoil stones in butter, and you may sip the broth. ( Fuller 1732)

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