Lookit this vintage tureen to serve chicken soup....and the basket-embossed base.
Posted on 10/10/2017 3:41:33 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
That sounds really cute!
I’m afraid I’m at at a loss, never having grown pumpkins myself.
I found this website, which has a lot of advice, and suggests varieties for good cooking pumpkins (scroll down to ‘perfect pumpkins for pies’):
https://www.almanac.com/plant/pumpkins
(Also see Ellendra’s posts in this thread. Apparently, a lot of pumpkins can be good eats; if I’m understanding Ellendra, it just depends on the individual pumpkin.)
Butternut and hubbard squash is good but I’m partial to delicata squash. It used to be hard to find but it’s more available now. You can cook it like acorn squash and I think it has a better, nuttier taste.
BFL
I love all things squash.
SeriousEats is a great site. I made the squash lasagna and we really enjoyed it. I am going to make the pumpkin pizza this week.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2016/10/pumpkin-recipes.html
It's when the store has a sign on them saying "sugar" pumpkin! LOL
I gave my daughter a recipe last year for pumpkin crème brulee that I got off of TV -- P. Allen Smith, I think. For the life of me, I cannot find that recipe. But, she made it for Thanksgiving, and it was such a hit that she's being asked for it at every big meal. I think she made it for 10, or 12, and even purchased a kitchen blow torch to finish it properly.
In any case, her practice round was made with a "real" sugar pumpkin and was outstanding. She didn't have a "real" pumpkin for her actual meal and used canned pumpkin, instead. It was delicious, but she says the "real" pumpkin was better.
Williams-Sonoma “Soups” cookbook has some great squash soup recipes......and, of course, the bowls pictured holding the soup recipes are just perfect.
You simply mush have a set of every bowl.
Alas, no pumpkin soup bowls.
Pumpkin Pastina
https://www.prouditaliancook.com/2008/10/pumpkin-pastina.html
Pumpkin Cheesecake Snickerdoodles
Ingredients
3¾ cups all-purpose flour
1½ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. ground cinnamon
¼ tsp. freshly-ground ground nutmeg
1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
½ cup light brown sugar
¾ cup pumpkin puree
1 large egg
2 tsp. vanilla extract
Filling Ingredients:
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
¼ cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Cinnamon-sugar coating:
½ cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
½ tsp. ground ginger
Dash of allspice
Instructions
In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg together. Set aside.
In a kitchenaid mixer with a paddle attachment, beat together the butter and sugars on medium high speed until fluffy about 2-3 minutes.
Blend in pumpkin puree, beat in egg and then add vanilla. Slowly add dry ingredients on low speed just until combined. Cover and chill dough for an hour.
To make the cream cheese filling, blend cream cheese, sugar and vanilla together. Chill for an hour.
Preheat oven to 350 and line your baking sheets with parchment paper. In a small bowl, combine the sugar and spices for the coating and set aside.
To make the cookies, take a tablespoon of the cookie batter. Flatten it like a pancake and place a teaspoon of the cream cheese in center. Form another tablespoon of the cookie batter into a flat pancake shape and place on top of the cream cheese. Pinch the edges together sealing in the cream cheese and roll into a ball. Roll in the cinnamon sugar coating and place on the prepared baking sheet 2 inches apart.
Repeat until the dough is gone and flatten the cookie dough balls with a heavy bottomed glass or measuring cup.
Bake the cookies for 10-15 minutes or until the tops start to crack. Let cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes and transfer to a wire rack. Enjoy!
https://therecipecritic.com/2013/09/pumpkin-cheesecake-snickerdoodles/
Indeed that is. naturally he does not publish the recipe in written form, so I have to take notes and type it up myself. Grrrrr. I’ve done this before, so why can’t I find my copy? Don’t bother to try to answer that. I bought 3 Christmas presents at Tuesday Morning 2 weeks ago and I’ve lost them! G_d knows where I hid them. I’ve turned the house upside down. They are probably in the same place with my favorite silver earrings that have been missing for a month!
Anyhow, that pumpkin crème brulee recipe was a real hit with my son in law, my grandsons, and my daughter’s guests. So much so that they demanded it for EASTER!
Well, I’m going to have to try that recipe!
(I’m searching for a lost earring, too ;-)
LOL! Years ago I bought a pumpkin tureen with 4 bowls; and I’ve never used it.
When you find your earring, tell me where the Christmas gifts I bought for the ladies at the beauty shop and a dear friend are! I shoved them quickly on a shelf, or in a closet, to deal with later and cannot find them. I don’t have too many places that have room for an extra package in this house, so what did I do with them? I have a 2 months to find them...
You know where they are. It’ll come to you.
I once bought an ocean blue porcelain tureen——to serve lobster bisque-—has fish for handles and a great embellished ladle.
I love looking at it....never used.
That sounds pretty.
Stick ‘fish tureen’ into google - there are lots of really pretty ones.
Lookit this vintage tureen to serve chicken soup....and the basket-embossed base.
I have a duck thing like that, with a blue design on it.
You really could spend yourself silly - before the Internet, we never saw but a fraction of this stuff.
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