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Calcutta Bisque

From The Cook County cook book, 1912

Serves 4

Water from boiled rice or vegetable stock can substitute for milk.

Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 109. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CALCUTTA BISQUE.— Put 1 cup of tomato pulp and 1 bay leaf in saucepan. When hot add to it 1 saltspoon of soda, and as it foams stir slowly into it 3 or 4 cups of milk, 1 teaspoon of curry powder, 1 teaspoon of butter, and 1 saltspoon of salt

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