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Green Tomato Soup

From Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus, 1911

Serves 4

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • five green tomatoes
  • one quart hot milk
  • a teaspoonful soda
  • a quarter cupful butter
  • four crackers

Method

  1. Chop tomatoes and boil in water for twenty minutes.

  2. Add hot milk with soda, bring to a boil, remove from heat, and mix in butter and crushed crackers with seasoning.

  3. Serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus (1911) by Rufus Estes, page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GREEN TOMATO SOUP — Chop fine five green toma- toes and boil twenty minutes in water to cover. Then add one quart hot milk, to which a teaspoonful soda has been added, let come to a boil, take from the fire and add a quarter cupful butter rubber into four crackers

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