bottled clam juice and 3 cups of low-salt chicken broth, with excellent results.
for 1½ cups of chopped lobster, cook one 1½-pound hard-shell lobster or two lobster tails and remove the meat, or buy picked-out meat. boil lobster or tails about 15 minutes. then fold into pumpkin mixture gently but thoroughly.
beat remaining 1 1/4 cups cream with remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla until it holds soft peaks.
spoon about 1/4 cup pumpkin mixture into bottom of each glass, then sprinkle with some of cookies and top with about 2 tablespoons whipped cream; repeat layers once, ending with cream. 