Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

• one quart of canned tomatoes
• a chopped onion
• two cupfuls of strong brown soup
• a tablespoonful of flour
• an equal quantity of butter

Method

1. 1

   Fry chopped onion in butter, then add tomatoes and brown soup.

2. 2

   Cook for three hours, strain, return to stove, and thicken with flour and butter mixture.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .. (1904) by Elisabeth Luther Cary, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

tomato-sauce. Yours, Pickwick." — Charles Dickens ("Pick- wick Papers"). TOMATO-SAUCE with more flavor than that usually served with chops is made by adding to one quart of canned tomatoes a chopped onion fried in a little butter and two cup- fuls of strong brown soup, highly sea- soned with salt and pepper. Cook for three hours on the side of the range. Strain through a puree-sieve. Return to the stove and thicken with a table- spoonful of flour rubbed into an equal quantity of butter. 52 MARCH 20TH ''The meat o' the meal folk made some fifty years ago." — Browning ("Fifine at the Fair"). THIS is one of Browning's ab- struse utterances which we might refer to the Browning Societies. In the meantime we may assume that meat o' the meal is plain flour, and may be used in making a flour-soup, which is better than its name sounds. Brown a tablespoonful of flour

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