Beautiful Soup

I decided to use the marrow I'd been given to make soup. I've never cooked marrow before so searched my 'Make it Fast, Cook it Slow' book for a recipe. The closest I came up with was a Butternut Squash soup. I added a couple of ripe apricots to the recipe in lieu of the second apple and hoped it wouldn't make too much difference. Despite the fact that I didn't use enough olive oil when roasting the marrow, and undercooked it in the oven, it was quite easy to chop into chunks to add to the crock pot.

Cooked on high for about five hours, it made a quite sophisticated, sweet soup.

Served with fresh home-made spelt bread, and the last of the summer pudding to follow. It was a good Bank-Holiday Monday lunch.

Lewis Carol knew all about it

Beautiful Soup so rich So green,

 Waiting in a hot tureen
 Who for such dainties would not stoop.
 
 Soup of the evening 
 Beautiful Soup, 
 Soup of the evening,
 Beautiful Soup
 
 Bea-utiful Sou-oop
 Beau-tiful Sou-oop
 Soup of the evening Beautiful Sou-oop
 Beautiful, Beautiful Soup.
 
 Beautiful Soup, Who cares for fish,
 Game or any other dish?
 Who would not give all else for two
 Pennyworth only of Beautiful Soup?
 
 Pennyworth only of Beautiful Soup,
 Bea-utiful Sou-oop
 Beau-tiful Sou-oop
 Sou-oop of the ee-ee-evening
 Beautiful, Beautiful Soup.