Mock-Bisque Soup

Ingredients

• One pint of tomato
• One quart of milk
• One large table-spoonful of butter
• One large table-spoonful of corn-starch
• One-quarter tea-spoonful of soda
• One tea-spoonful of sugar
• Salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. 1

   Boil the tomatoes alone for half an hour, adding the seasoning and soda.

2. 2

   When soft, pulp them through a fine sieve.

3. 3

   Heat the milk and thicken it with corn-starch wet with a little cold milk.

4. 4

   Add the boiling milk to the tomatoes, stir, and serve immediately.

5. 5

   Do not heat after mixing or the milk will curdle.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MOCK-BISQUE SOUP. One pint of tomato. One quart of milk. One large table-spoonful of butter. One large table-spoonful of corn-starch. One-quarter tea-spoonful of soda. One tea-spoonful of sugar. Salt and pepper to taste

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