Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

• one pint of stewed and strained tomatoes
• half a pint of stock
• three table-spoonfuls of butter
• two generous table-spoonfuls of flour
• one slice of onion
• one slice of carrot
• one generous teaspoonful of salt
• half a teaspoonful of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Cook butter, onion, and carrot together for ten minutes; add flour and stir until frothy.

2. 2

   Gradually add stock while stirring.

3. 3

   When smooth, add tomato, salt, and pepper.

4. 4

   Simmer for ten minutes, strain, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 252. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

half a teaspoonful of pepper. Put the bread on a board, and crush it lightly with a rolling-pin. Put this into a sieve, and sift all the fine crumbs through ; there should be half a cupful of these. Put them in the double-boiler, with the onion, salt, pepper, and stock ; cook for half an hour ; at the end of that time take out the onion, and add one table-spoon- ful of the butter. The sauce is then ready to serve. While the sauce is cooking, put one table-spoonful of butter into a frying-pan, and place on the fire. When the butter is hot, add the coarse crumbs that did not go through the sieve. Stir over a hot fire until the crumbs are brown and crisp. This work must be done carefully in order that the crumbs shall be crisp and brown and yet not be burned. Bread sauce is served with grouse, quail, partridge, ptarmigan, roast chicken, and turkey. The sauce and fried crumbs may be served in separate dishes ; or the sauce may be spread on a meat dish, and the birds be placed on this, and the birds and sauce sprinkled with the crumbs. If stock cannot be obtained, substitute a generous pint of milk. *• * Tomato Sauce. Use one pint of stewed and strained tomatoes, half a pint of stock, three table-spoonfuls of butter, two gener- ous table-spoonfuls of flour, one slice of onion, one of carrot, one generous teaspoonful of salt

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