Le Potiron Tout Rond à la Mode de Julia Child

A lovely sight in the Dordogne during autumn is a pile of huge yellow and orange pumpkins sitting at the roadside on their way to the cool cellars in the village. I have found that some winters I can store pumpkins until the spring, but I still think that the best-tasting pumpkins are those that you cook on a misty autumn evening when the leaves are falling and there is a scent of wood smoke in the air.

This recipe is slightly adapted from Julia Child and Simone Beck’s delicious bak