Dry white wine or sherry: It doesn’t have to be an expensive bottle but you should not skip it, you’ll need the acid to balance out the soup.

You could skip it but it’s really too delicious to pass up.

Diced pancetta: It adds flavor on the front-end and back-end of the recipe.

It’s sweeter than regular butter and you can always add the salt, if you want to.

Unsalted butter: Splurge for the unsalted, in fact, always have it on hand.

Extra virgin olive oil: Trust me, it’s the best flavor for this recipe.

I found my pumpkins at Trader Joe’s but I am sure you can find them at Whole Foods, Bristol Farms and other specialty grocers. Baking pumpkins are usually labeled for you but if you can’t find any, feel free to use canned pumpkin puree but I doubt it will be as delicious.

Sugar Pie pumpkins: Not carving pumpkins from the patch, those are not grown for eating.

She has also written novels aimed at older children, including The Hippo at the End of the Hall (2018).įind the Pumpkin Soup mini world in the Enchanted Library. Cooper’s other books include The Bear Under the Stairs (1993) and Tatty Ratty (2001). It was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1998, making Cooper the first illustrator to win the award for two consecutive books (the other being The Baby Who Wouldn’t Go To Bed in 1996).Ĭat, Duck and Squirrel continue their adventures in A Pipkin of Pepper (2004) and Delicious! Cooper’s pumpkin theme was influenced by Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).īecame a bestseller worldwide. Drawings alongside The Little Red Hen inspired a story about three argumentative animals cooking together in a house in the woods. Before she could read words, Cooper ‘read’ books by making up her own stories to go with the pictures. Helen Cooper (1963 - ) is an Oxford-based children’s author and illustrator.

But chaos ensues when Duck decides that he wants a turn with the stirring spoon…Ī bestselling story about friendship by Oxford author Helen Cooper, with appealing characters and beautiful autumnal illustrations.

Cat cuts up the pumpkin, Squirrel stirs the soup, and Duck tips in the salt. Every day, the friends make pumpkin soup, the best you’ve ever tasted. Cat, Duck and Squirrel live deep in the woods in an old white cabin.

Pumpkin soup by helen cooper