Skip to content

Beta This app is in Beta Testing

Pumpkin Soup

No ratings yet
France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 8 ingredients

  1. 2 Ibs. of yellow pumpkin
  2. 5 pint of water
  3. 1 oz. of butter
  4. 4 oz. of bread has been sliced
  5. Cut
  6. Milk
  7. 1 pinch of salt
  8. 1 oz. of sugar
Contains GlutenMilk Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. This is in season from October to February.
  2. Take 2 Ibs.
  3. of yellow pumpkin ;
  4. Take out the seeds, and pare off } inch of the rind ;
  5. Cut it in pieces 14 inch square;
  6. put in a stewpan, with : 1 oz.
  7. of butter, 1 oz.
  8. of sugar, 1 pinch of salt, 5 pint of water ;
  9. Simmer for an hour and a half, and drain in a colander ;
  10. Put back in the stewpan, and add 14 pint of boiled milk— otherwise, if unboiled, the milk is liable to curdle ;
  11. Boil for a minute, and pour in the soup-tureen, in which 4 oz.
  12. of bread has been sliced ;
  13. Serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Colander