Baked Tomatoes

Ingredients

• two layers of tomatoes
• pepper
• salt
• a sprinkling of sugar
• little pieces of butter
• bread crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Pour boiling water over the tomatoes to loosen the skins, peel them, and cut out any green core.

2. 2

   Butter a baking dish, put in the tomatoes whole in two layers, seasoning each with pepper, salt, sugar, and pieces of butter.

3. 3

   Cover with bread crumbs, more on the top layer, and sprinkle with butter, pepper, and salt.

4. 4

   Bake for nearly two hours in a good oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Tomatoes. Poai boiling water over them to loosen the skins, peel them, and oat oat any green core there may be ; batter a baking-dish, VE0ETABLE8. 141 put in the tomatoes whole, two layers, each one seasoned with pepper, salt, a sprinkling of sugar, and little pieoes of batter put over qnito thickly, and bread cmmbs, rather more crumbs on the lep layer than the other, strew pieces of butter, pepper and salt over the crumbs on the top, bake nearly two hours in a good OTen, serve them in the dish they are baked in. Canned toma- toes that are put up without cooking are very nice done in thii^ way. * Broiled Tomatoes. Wash and wipe fine large ripe tomatoes, cut them in half horixontally through the middle, put them on a gridiron with the cut side down oyer a clear fire. When partially cooked, turn them over, and finish them with the skin side next the fire ; lay them on a hot dish, and season with butter, pepper and salt. A nice breakfast dish. Stuffed Tomatoes. Take fine large ripe tomatoes, cut out the blossom end, and scoop out the insides as clean as you can without breaking the skins, chop this fine, add to it equal parts of cold roast beef, mutton or chicken, cut as fine as possible with a chopper, and as much green com as meat, cut raw from the cob, mix all together and add a few bread crumbs

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