May 25, 2026
Find a recipe from The Savers of Flavor episode, It's a Great Pumpkin, below.
Pumpkin Chips
Ingredients
- 1 pumpkin
- For every pound of cut-up pumpkin: 1 pound (2 cups) sugar, 1/2 cup lemon juice
Instructions
- Peel the outer skin off the pumpkin. Your vegetable peeler, if you have one, will be useless, so use a paring knife instead, And have a knife sharpener on hand - you will need to resharpen about halfway through.
- Remove the seeds and strings, then cut the pumpkin into strips about 2 to 4 inches wide, then cut them into slivers about 1/8 inch thick.
- Weigh the pumpkin, then measure out the lemon juice and sugar. (This will be a lot of lemon juice; you may want to just get a bottle instead of squeezing it yourself.) Mix everything in the pot you'll boil it in and let it soak overnight in the refrigerator.
- The next day, place the pot on the stove and bring it to a steady boil. You don't want to boil too hard, but don't let it simmer slowly either. When the chips are transparent, put them into jars.
About the Show
Chef Kevin Mitchell and food historian David Shields are on a quest to seek out and rescue those ingredients before they are lost forever. Part documentary, part travelogue, part cooking show—The Savers of Flavor is the story of history from our fields to our finest dining rooms, of foods from humble kitchen tables to some of the most exalted restaurants in the world, gathered from the coast to the foothills and everywhere in between.
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