Sister Mollie's Tomato Bisque

Ingredients

• One quart of tomatoes
• two quarts of cold water
• three tablespoonfuls of flour
• one tablespoonful of sugar
• one pint of sweet milk
• one-half tablespoonful of butter
• salt to taste
• and pepper to taste
• one scant teaspoonful of baking soda

Method

1. 1

   Boil tomatoes and water until soft, strain, add seasoning.

2. 2

   Boil again, adding flour mixed in water, butter, sugar, and hot milk.

3. 3

   Add baking soda to tureen, pour in soup, and mix well.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete cook book (1900) by Rees, Jennie Day Mrs., page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

salt to taste. When well boiled, say three-quarters of an hour, add one quart of hot milk, and just before taking off the fire put one- ha If teaspoonful of soda in the soup tureen and pour boiling soup over it and stir well. Sometimes meat and barley are added with less tomatoes. A small potato and chopped onion can also be added for a change. PUREE OF CHICKEN. One large chicken, a knuckle of veal, one carrot, one onion with two cloves stuck in it, a teaspoonful of pars- ley, two leeks, salt and white pepper to taste. Put all in a 22 ihe Complete Cook Book. soup pot to boil gently; skim well. When the chicken ia done remove it and the veal. Put back the skin and bones and simmer two hours. Chop the chicken fine and mash it well and return it to the simmering broth and stir well for ten minutes. Then rub it well through a sieve. Return the puree to a saucepan ; stir steadily and heat without boiling. Finish with one pint of boiling cream and one-third cup of butter. Serve with small squares of bread fried in butter. The above will serve eight people. CABBAGE SOUP. One thin slice of bacon, one teacup grated carrots, one pint of cabbage stock, one bay leaf. Place in a soup pot and cook I wenty-five minutes. Skim well and take out bay leaf. Now add : one-fourth teaspoon of pepper and one teaspoon of salt. Rub together one table- spoonful of butter and one tablespoonful of flour; add to one pint of hot milk, and pour into your soup. Let come to boiling point, and serve. SISTER MOLLIE'S TOMATO BISQUE. One quart of tomatoes, two quarts of cold water, three tablespoonfuls of flour, one tablespoonful of sugar, one pint of sweet milk, one-half tablespoonful of butter; salt and pepper to taste. Put tomatoes and water to boil until very soft ; then strain through a sieve and add salt and pepper. Place again on the fire and boil, adding the flour (mixed smoothly in water), next the butter, then the sugar, and lastly, the hot milk. Place one scant teaspoonful of baking soda

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