Tomato Salad a la Thorelli

Ingredients

• small, even-sized tomatoes
• cream cheese
• red tomato glaze
• truffle
• green pepper

Method

1. 1

   Select small, even-sized tomatoes; put in hot water for two minutes, take off the skin carefully, cut them in halves across; scoop out a little from the tomato, form them in oblong shape.

2. 2

   Fill with cream cheese; place them on a platter with the filled side down and glaze with red tomato glaze; make two little holes in each tomato for the handle.

3. 3

   Lay them on thin slices of tomatoes on a bed of crisp lettuce; arrange in a ring on a platter close together and in the center serve Aurorian sauce.

4. 4

   Decorate with the rest of the cream cheese, put it through a fancy tube making a streamer from in between the tomatoes in a half-circle down to the platter; put a round piece of truffle on the end of each; glaze the truffles with a drop of aspic.

5. 5

   When ready to serve put a handle of crisp green pepper in each tomato tied with a bow of white ribbon.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Ericsson Hammond's salad appetizer cook book... (1924) by Maria Matilda Ericsson Hammond, page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tomato Salad a la Thorelli Salade de Tomates a la Thorelli Select small, even-sized tomatoes; put in hot water for two minutes, take off the skin carefully, cut them in halves across; scoop out a little from the tomato, form them in oblong shape. Fill with cream cheese; place them on a platter with the filled side down and glaze with red tomato glaze; make two little holes in each tomato for the handle. Lay them on thin slices of tomatoes on a bed of crisp lettuce; arrange in a ring on a platter close to¬ gether and in the center serve Aurorian sauce. Decorate with the rest of the cream cheese, put it through a fancy tube making a streamer from in between the tomatoes in a half-circle down to the platter; put a round piece of truffle on the end of each; glaze the truffles with a drop of aspic. When ready to serve put a handle of crisp green pepper

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