Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

• Two tablespoonfuls butter
• Two tablespoonfuls flour
• one quart of tomatoes
• five or six cloves
• a large slice of onion

Method

1. 1

   Warm butter in a frying pan, adding slowly the flour.

2. 2

   Cook about ten minutes, and as soon as flour and butter seem perfectly smooth and brown, stir in the tomatoes.

3. 3

   Cook three minutes.

4. 4

   Salt and pepper to suit the taste.

5. 5

   Put this through a sieve fine enough to keep the seed from passing through.

6. 6

   This sauce is delicious with fish and macaroni.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Twentieth century home cook book (1905) by Francis Carruthers, page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TOMATO SAUCE. Two tablespoonfuls butter. Two tablespoonfuls flour. Warm butter in a frying pan, adding slowly the flour. To one quart of tomatoes (canned), five or six cloves with a large slice of onion

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