Smoked Pumpkin Soup With Rum Cream

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Bursting with the lukewarm flavors of fall, this crockery is velvety and rich, a beauteous starter to a several-course meal. Or, with a crockery and immoderate bully brownish breadstuff and butter, a good entree.

You'll request to soak 1 cupful of pome wood chips successful h2o for 1 hour.

The pumpkin tin beryllium smoked up to 2 days successful advance. Scoop retired the pulp, enactment into a sealed instrumentality and refrigerate.

The crockery look is from Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin; the rum pick look is adapted from "The Inn astatine Little Washington: A Consuming Passion," by Patrick O'Connell and Tim Turner (Random House, 1996).

Ingredients

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Servings: 8-10  appetizer servings oregon 4 to 6 main-course

For the soup

  • 1 mean (about 4 pounds) pumpkin
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 mean shallot, minced
  • 5 cups no-salt-added chickenhearted broth
  • 1/4 spoon crushed cinnamon
  • 1/8 spoon freshly crushed allspice
  • 1/2 cupful orangish juice
  • 1/2 cupful dense cream
  • 1/8 spoon freshly grated nutmeg
  • 1/4 spoon salt, oregon to taste
  • Dash freshly crushed achromatic pepper

For the rum cream

  • 1 cupful dense cream
  • Finely grated zest and freshly squeezed foodstuff from 1/2 citrus (1/4 spoon zest and 1/2 spoon juice)
  • 3 tablespoons good-quality acheronian rum
  • Pinch sugar

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6 main-course servings)

  • Calories

    390

  • Fat

    29 g

  • Saturated Fat

    18 g

  • Carbohydrates

    25 g

  • Sodium

    230 mg

  • Cholesterol

    120 mg

  • Protein

    6 g

  • Fiber

    2 g

  • Sugar

    6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

The crockery look is from Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin; the rum pick look is adapted from "The Inn astatine Little Washington: A Consuming Passion," by Patrick O'Connell and Tim Turner (Random House, 1996).

Tested by Jeff Donald.

Published October 25, 2011

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Updated March 14, 2026

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