Pumpkin Soup

Name: Pumpkin Soup
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ pint (300 ml) milk; 1 pint (600 ml) chicken stock; 1 medium-size onion, chopped finely; 1 oz (25 g) butter; 3 lb (1.3 kg) piece of pumpkin; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) lemon juice; a pinch of sugar; ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml spoon) freshly grated or ground nutmeg or mace; salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cooking of the USA

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1993

About

Pumpkins are a common sight in the fall in New England. Their lovely orange colour and round shapes look wonderful in the fields – and in the greengrocers. They make very good soup of a beautiful pale orange colour and a delicate flavour, a perfect start, to any meal.

Ingredients

3 lb (1.3 kg) piece of pumpkin
1 oz (25

Americas
United States
New England
Soup
Gluten-free

Method

Scrape out the seeds and the stringy centre from the piece of pumpkin. Place it skin side up on a baking sheet and bake in the preheated oven for about 45 minutes, until the pumpkin is tender when pierced with a fork. Scrape the pulp from the shell and r