Tinned Tomatoes

Ingredients

• a tin of tomatoes whole
• pepper
• salt
• some butter

Method

1. 1

   Open the tin and carefully remove the tomatoes without breaking them.

2. 2

   Put them in the oven with pepper, salt, and butter until hot, occasionally basting with their own juice.

3. 3

   For a delicate version, fill each tomato with a mixture of chopped mushrooms, onion, and parsley, then bake.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's guide to preserved meats, fruits, vegetables, &c (1880), page 219. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tinned tomatoes have this advantage, that they have been allowed to ripen according to nature in the sun. The fruit, if it is picked in an unripe state and allowed to ripen after, gets partially rotten at the same time that it ripens. This is particularly notice- able in the case of pineapples. Tinned tomatoes are exceedingly nice served as they are. Open the tin and take the tomatoes out as carefully as possible without breaking them up, and put them in the oven, with pepper, salt, and butter, sufficiently long to make them hot through, occasionally basting them with their own juice ; then serve them plain. A still more delicate way of cooking them is with the assist- ance of a few mushrooms, either tinned or fresh. Open first of all a tin of tomatoes whole and care- fully remove the pips from the in- side. Now take a handful of mush- rooms or a small tin. If fresh mush- rooms are used, of course they must be carefully peeled. Chop them up with a piece of onion about as big as the thumb down to the first joint, and a good brimming teaspoonful of chopped parsley. Place them in a frying-pan with sufficient scraped bacon fat, scraped from cold boiled bacon, to cook HOUSEKEEPER'S GUIDE. 151 them till they are a nice pulp. A little pepper and salt may be added. Wien they are sufficiently cooked and the whole becomes a moist pulp, fill each tomato with this mixture, getting as much of it into the tomatoes as possi- ble. When the forcemeat is put in place the tomatoes in a tin with some butter

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