Tomato Nests

Ingredients

• 6 or 8 large tomatoes
• 2 ozs. cooked macaroni
• 2 ozs. finely chopped ham
• 1 oz. butter
• 1 tablespoonful browned crumbs
• 1 tablespoonful white breadcrumbs
• 1 tablespoonful gravy
• Pepper and salt
• 1 teaspoonful of cheese

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter, fry ham and breadcrumbs until brown, add gravy and chopped tomato centers.

2. 2

   Fill tomatoes with mixture, add macaroni, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and cheese.

3. 3

   Bake for 10-15 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book (1899) by H. Maclurcan, page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 oz. butter 1 teaspoonful capers 4 hard-boiled eggs Pepper 6 or 8 sardines Salt. Mode. — Line some very small patty tins with the pastry rolled very thin, fill them with dry rice and bake till of a golden brown ; shake out the rice ; wipe the oil from the sardines, skin them and pound in a mortar or basin with the hard-boiled yolks, butter, pepper, capers and salt ; fill the pastry cases with this mixture^ make very hot and serve. 458— TOMATO NESTS. 6 or 8 large tomatoes 2 ozs. cooked macaroni 2 ozs. finely chopped ham i oz. butter 1 tablespoonful browned 1 tablespoonful white crumbs breadcrumbs 1 tablespoonful gravy Pepper and salt 1 teaspoonful of cheese

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