The dough tells a story.

Woke at 5 and came down to overflowing bucket of dough! I was so tired I went to bed and forgot to refrigerate it. Overnight the dough rose and popped the lid, and climbed out onto the counter and bloops overflowed onto the floor. 

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103

Sweet Porridge

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

There was a poor but pious little girl who lived alone with her mother, and they no longer had anything to eat. So the child went into the forest, and there an old woman met her. She knew of the girl's sorrow, and presented her with a little pot, which when she said, "Little pot, cook," would cook good, sweet millet porridge, and when she said, " Little pot, stop," it stopped cooking.

The girl took the pot home to her mother, and now they were freed from their poverty and hunger, and ate sweet porridge as often as they chose. One time when the girl had gone out, her mother said, "Little pot, cook." And it did cook, and she ate until she was full, and then she wanted the pot to stop cooking, but did not know the word. So it went on cooking and the porridge rose over the edge, and still it cooked on until the kitchen and whole house were full, and then the next house, and then the whole street, just as if it wanted to satisfy the hunger of the whole world. It was terrible, and no one knew how to stop it. At last when only one single house remained, the child came home and just said, "Little pot, stop," and it stopped cooking, and anyone who wished to return to the town had to eat his way back.

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• Source: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Der süße Brei, Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales -- Grimms' Fairy Tales), no. 103.

• The Grimms' source: Henriette Dorothea (Dortchen) Wild (1795-1867). Wilhelm Grimm married Dortchen Wild in 1825.

• This tale was added to the Grimms' collection in 1815 as vol. 2, no. 17. In following editions it has been no. 103.

• Translated by Margaret Hunt (1884). Translation revised and corrected by D. L. Ashliman. © 2000.

• Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 565. In most tales of this type, the magic implement is a salt mill that continues to turn out salt. Unable to stop it, the owner throws it into the ocean, which explains why the ocean is salty.

• The Grimms' "Sweet Porridge" also bears a close resemblance to tales of type 325*, in which a sorcerer's apprentice charms a broom into carrying water, but then cannot make it stop. The best-known German version of a type 325* tale is Der Zauberlehrling, a ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1798.

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