Stephanie Alexander Kitchen 

 

Sonia Nista - Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Specialist

With the weather getting chilly, it’s definitely time for soup!

The students have now completed another menu, this time talking about both English and Australian cuisine.

With pumpkins still plentiful in our veggie gardens and inexpensive to buy, we’ve created a delicious roast pumpkin soup served with freshly made crusty bread. For our students in Year 5 and 4 they made the very Australian, “Lady Flo’s” pumpkin scones. These lovely golden scones were served with freshly made herb butter or fresh cream and jam.

Here are some of the comments from the students:

5C-English Pumpkin Soup 

• The name pumpkin comes from the Greek word ‘pepon’, meaning ‘large melon’.
• Pumpkins are popular decorations during Halloween. A carved pumpkin illuminated by candles is known as a ‘jack-o-lantern’. The tradition is believed to have come from Ireland, where they used to carve faces into turnips, beet and other root vegetables as part of the Gaelic festival of Samhain.

6B - Riley, Zac, Jordan, Jovita, Keira 

• Pumpkins are mostly orange but they can also be in Red, White, Green and Yellow. Pumpkins are used as Jack o Lanterns on Halloween. The world’s largest pumpkin in the world is 2,323 pounds and the smallest pumpkin cannot be weighed for some reason.

5D - Lady Flo's Pumpkin Scones By Victoria. L

A pumpkin is a squash plant that is deep yellow skinned and sometimes orange and yellow. It has a smooth and slightly ribbed skin. The thick shell contains the seed and the pulp. In New Zealand and Australian English, the term pumpkin generally refers to the broader category called winter squash elsewhere. Native to North America, pumpkins are widely grown for commercial use and are used both in food and recreation.

The word pumpkin originates from the word pepon (πέπων), which is Greek for "large melon", something round and large, and the French adapted this word to pompon, which then the British changed to pumpion and then later with the American colonists it became known as pumpkin.

The pumpkin scones were magnificent & delicious or may I say delish! They were awesome because the pumpkin flavour just popped out when you finished them.

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