Best Pumpkin Soup

This recipe is from "My Grandma's Kitchen" with recipes by Margaret Fulton and illustrations by Louise Fulton Keat.

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Photography (C) Jacqui Melville

From the authors:

When our guests are all seated we bring out a tray with our best pumpkin soup to serve for entree. We eat it with crunchy baguette on the side. Our friends say it’s the best soup that they’ve ever tried!

Ingredients

• 30g butter
• 1 brown onion, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, chopped
• 3 rashers free-range bacon, rind removed and diced, (optional)
• 1/2 tsp ground cumin
• 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1kg pumpkin, peeled and roughly chopped
• 4 cups chicken stock
• 1/4 cup cream
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons snipped chives, to garnish

Method

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