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Old Fashioned Tavern Style Pumpkin Soup
This Tavern style pumpkin soup has an old fashioned, colonial style taste, and is a famed old style food, reminiscent of late eighteenth century America. Serve this old fashioned favorite with dishes like roasted free range turkey, creamed green beans, Madeira toast, and old fashioned pumpkin soup.
This Tavern style pumpkin soup can be served either hot or chilled and you can use either pumpkin or butternut squash to make it. Tavern style pumpkin soup is easy to make and the following recipe shows you how to make it yourself.
Sometimes the old recipes are the best ones, which is why your grandmother's old fashioned recipes are sometimes even more delicious than anything you can buy in a store. A lot of families pass recipes like this Tavern style pumpkin soup down the generations because the best recipes always stand the test of time.
Tavern Style Pumpkin Soup with Mace and Syrup
Ingredients -
3 cups fresh pumpkin or butternut squash, peeled and diced
5 cups chicken broth, made with 5 cups hot water and 6 bouillon cubes
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
¼ teaspoon mace
2 tablespoons syrup
1 tablespoon honey
1 onion, chopped
1 tablespoon butter
½ cup half and half (optional)
Salt and black pepper, to taste
Preparation:
Add the pumpkin to the chicken broth and simmer it until tender.
Sauté the onion in the butter until soft then put the onion and pumpkin mixture in a blender and puree it.
Return the mixture to the pot and add salt and black pepper.
Add the honey, syrup, mace, and nutmeg. Stir in the cream for a richer flavor.
(Serves 6)
