Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

• one tablespoonful of butter
• a teaspoonful chopped onion
• one tablespoonful flour
• one-half cup water or stock
• one cup of strained tomato
• salt and pepper

Method

1. 1

   Heat butter and cook onion until golden brown.

2. 2

   Stir in flour and cook until smooth.

3. 3

   Gradually add water or stock, then strained tomato.

4. 4

   Boil for five minutes and strain.

5. 5

   Serve with macaroni or meat.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide, comprising as complete cook book (1901) by Johnson, Alice A.,, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tomato 5auce. — Heat one tablespoon- ful of butter ; cook in it a teaspoonful chopped onion until golden brown ; stir in one table- spoonful flour, and cook till smooth. Add one-half cup water or stock gradually, pour in one cup of strained tomato, add salt and pepper, boil five minutes, and strain. Serve with boiled macaroni, or boiled or baked meat. White Sauce. — Take two tablespoon- fuls each butter and flour. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in the flour and work in the butter until smooth. Cook it, stir- ring until the flour swells and is smooth. Add one cup scalded milk gradually, and boil, stirring constantly until the mixture 402 thickens. Stir in a seasoning of salt and pepper and serve hot. UvSe one tablespoonful flour

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