When I was growing up, my maternal grandmother Hedwig Sorger, who lived on Jordan Street in Allentown, had a house with a lovely front porch. We would sit there on summer evenings. Often we would engage in word games. One favorite was "Name the Food Game". It started with someone saying I'm thinking of a food that starts with a particular letter (like T). Each person then took turns trying to identify it. The one who did had the next turn. One time grandmother, who spoke good English, said I'm thinking of a food with the letter B - we tried and tried but no one could guess the right answer. When asked, Mom said Bumpkin. We all laughed and it's only in later years that I became aware of the similar German "B" and "P" phonetic sounds. These often occur in family remembrances of villages of origin as well. Look out for them in your research. Now getting back to pumpkin soup:

Gertrude Schlener (BB member and a cousin I met through the BB) writes:
I do have a recipe for Pumpkin Soup that you can pass on to your readers.