Caldron Rind

If you’re lucky enough to find a pumpkin, squash, or edible gourd in a survival scenario, don’t slice it up to eat too fast. You can simmer a fine woodsman stew inside the hollowed cavity. Meats, root vegetables, greens, and of course the flesh inside the container itself can all be boiled and stewed inside the caldron rind. After you’ve eaten this fine stew and inner flesh, use the rind several more times to boil and purify water or to make additional wild stews. Note: Pumpkin seeds can be roasted on a hot rock and make a nutritious trail snack for a survivor on the move.

gourd [ɡʊəd] or [ɡɔːd]= a fleshy, typically large fruit with a hard skin(=rind), some varieties of which are edible simmer = to keep (food) just below boiling point when cooking or heating it stew = a dish of meat or vegetables (or both) cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan hollowed = empty caldron = a large metal pot for cooking on the move = to be travelling