Sliced Tomatoes

Ingredients

• a small dish with cut garlic or shalot
• plenty of salt
• a very little pepper
• a little oil
• a little vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Prepare tomatoes an hour before serving.

2. 2

   Cut into thin slices, lay on a dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and pour oil and vinegar over them.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 263. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sliced Tomatoes. Damson Pie. Cheese. Breakfast. — Ham Toast (March 28th) ; Ptizzared Haddock (September 10th) ; Milk Polls (August 26th) ; Plum Porridge (August 31st). Dinner. — Soles, Filleted, Rolled, and Baked (March 1st) ; Brown Butter Sauce (February 12th) ; Boast Saddle of Mutton (March 4th). Venison Sauce. — Melt two table-spoonfuls of red currant jelly, and mix with it a table-spoonful of port or claret. Heat in a small saucepan, and serve very hot. Potatoes (May 6th) ; Scarlet Runners {see Kidney Beans, August 16th). Mountain Pudding. — Butter a pie-dish and line it with ratafias, and grate the rind of a lemon over them. Mix two ounces of hour with a little cold milk to a smooth paste, and add cold milk gradually to make a pint. Boil this for ten minutes, stirring all the time. Pour the mixture gently over the ratafias, and soak for ten minutes. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth. Stir two ounces of sifted sugar to this, and add a little corn-flour or arrowroot to make the icing stiff. Arrange it on the pudding in five or six little mounds to imitate mountains, and put the pudding in the oven till these are lightly browned. Serve cold. This icing will take no harm if it is made two or three hours before it is wanted. Cheese (June 8th). Tea. — Milk Polls (August 26th) and Pice Cake (August 2nd). Supper. — Haricot Salad (March 29th). Sliced Tomatoes. — Prepare these an hour or so before they are wanted. Pub a small dish with cut garlic or shalot ; cut the tomatoes into thin slices, lay these on the dish, and sprinkle plenty of salt and a very little pepper over them. Pour a little oil

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