Cream of Tomato Soup

Ingredients

• two cupfuls of canned tomatoes
• a good-sized pinch of soda
• the milk foundation prepared in another vessel

Method

1. 1

   Heat canned tomatoes to boiling, strain, add soda, and pour slowly onto the prepared milk foundation.

2. 2

   Serve immediately.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for little girls (1910) by Olive Hyde Foster, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cream of potato soup is made by adding two scant cupfuls of mashed potato to the milk foun- dation given. Some people like the addition of a half-teaspoonful of onion juice to flavor or a ta- blespoonful of chopped bacon. If too thick it can be thinned with some of the boiling potato water. 27 COOKERY FOR LITTLE GIRLS It is advisable for the mother to have the child make a certain cream soup twice in close succes- sion to be sure that she thoroughly understands the process, and then make each of the other kinds soon after, so that she will get used to using up whatever left-overs she finds on hand. BLACK BEAN SOUP Black beans make a particularly nice soup for a company dinner. To two cupfuls of the dried beans use four cupfuls of cold water and let stand over night. Next day add two cupfuls of boiling water and cook until the beans are perfectly ten- der, with one small chopped onion, three cloves, salt, pepper and a dash of cayenne. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, stir in two tablespoon- fuls of flour, add a cupful of cold water ; cook the same as the milk foundation and add to the beans after they have been put through a colander. Boil up well together, stirring to blend well. Put a couple of thin slices of hard-boiled egg and lemon in each plate and pour the hot soup in. If de- sired, the soup can be additionally flavored with a small wineglassful of sour wine. CREAM OF TOMATO Before leaving the soup question, let me say that the cream of tomato is made by heating two 28 SOME EASY SOUPS cupfuls of canned tomatoes to the boiling point, then straining, and after adding a good-sized, pinch of soda, which must be stirred in well, poured slowly on to the milk foundation, prepared in another vessel

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