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Tomato Sauce

From A year's cookery, 1880

Serves 4

Can be served over eggs or as a side.

Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 204. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

tomato sauce for breakfast to-morrow. It can be made hot in the morning (July 15th). July ith. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Pickled Herrings. Boiled Ham. Fried Plaice. Eggs in Sunshine. Bi’oad Beans. Dutch Sauce. Hot Buttered Toast. Maitre d’ Hotel Sauce. Chicken Fricasseed. Dry Toast. Suet Pudding. Potatoes. Marmalade. Cauliflower. Biown and White Bread Brown Bread and Butter and Butter. Pudding. Fried Hominy. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day. — About half a peck of Broad or Windsor Beans ; two pennyworth of Parsley ; a thick Plaice (April 21st) ; a couple of plump young Chickens (June 29th) ; a quarter of a pound of firm Kidney Suet ; Potatoes ; Cauli¬ flower. For To-morrow.— Muffins (January 29th) ; half a pound of Naples Macaroni. Order for to-morrow one or a couple of tame Rabbits. A quarter of a pint ot Cream, for the curry. Breakfast. — Eggs in Sunshine. — Take an earthenware dish that will stand the fire and also that can be sent to table. Butter it well, sprinkle a little salt upon it, break into it as many eggs as are required, and put it on the top of the range, or in the oven for a couple of minutes till the eggs are set. Have ready some good tomato sauce, pour it over the eggs, and serve. If preferred, the tomatoes can be simply baked (July 7th) and laid on the eggs. To make Tomato Sauce. — Take half a dozen ripe tomatoes. Trim away the stalks, scoop out the seeds, cut the fruit in slices, and put them in a stewpan, with a quarter of a pint of water, an ounce of butter, and a little pepper and salt. If liked, a sliced onion, a bay-leaf, and a pinch of thyme
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