Pain de Semoule à la Tomate

Ingredients

• 3 oz. semolina
• 1 pint milk
• ½ pint tomato pulp
• 2 eggs
• 3 fresh tomatoes
• 1 bay-leaf
• 1 small blade mace
• 1 oz. grated cheese
• 1 piece celery
• pepper and salt
• 1 oz. butter
• ½ oz. corn-flour

Method

1. 1

   Put half a pint of milk into a stewpan, add bay-leaf, mace, and celery.

2. 2

   When boiling, stir in the semolina, work this over the fire until it thickens; then add the grated cheese, half an ounce of butter, and half a gill of tomato pulp.

3. 3

   Season to taste, stir, and cook gently for at least ten minutes.

4. 4

   Take out the bay-leaf, mace, and celery; let the mixture cool a little.

5. 5

   Separate the yolks from the whites of eggs, stir the yolks into the mixture, beat the whites to a stiff froth and add also.

6. 6

   Have ready one large or several small well-buttered timbale moulds.

7. 7

   Blanch, peel, and slice the tomatoes.

8. 8

   Three parts fill the mould with the mixture, add the sliced tomatoes in layers between the mixture.

9. 9

   Put the moulds in a sauté-pan containing a little boiling water, cover them with a buttered paper, and cook in the oven for at least thirty minutes.

10. 10

    Mix the remainder of the milk with the corn-flour, pour into a stewpan, add the remainder of tomato pulp, boil up while stirring, season to taste, and cook for five minutes.

11. 11

    Unmould the pain onto a hot dish, strain over the prepared sauce, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new century cookery book (1901) by Charles Herman Senn, page 411. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pain de Semoule d la Tomate. — 3 oz. semolina or fiorador, 1 pint milk, ^ pint tomato pulp, 2 eggs, 3 fresh tomatoes, 1 bay -leaf , 1 small blade mace, 1 oz. grated cheese, 1 piece celery, pepper and salt, 1 oz. butter, ^ oz. corn-flour. Put half a pint of milk into a stewpan, add bay-leaf,

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