Tomato Soup (without stock or milk)

Ingredients

• 1 quart can tomatoes
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 heaping teaspoons flour
• 1 tablespoon snowdrift
• 1 pint hot water
• Half an onion sliced
• 1 bay leaf

Method

1. 1

   Rub snowdrift and flour together, moisten with tomato juice.

2. 2

   Boil tomatoes and onion for 15 minutes, then add prepared flour and snowdrift, boil for another 15 minutes, rub through a sieve, heat, and serve with toasted bread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Efficiency in home-making and first-aid to good cooking (1915) by Robertson, Georgia, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon salt. Boil 3 hours. In another saucepan put 1 tablespoon of butter in which brown 1 tablespoon each finely chopped onion, carrots, turnips ; then add these to the soup and boil 1 hour. Rub through sieve and add Y\ spoon pepper, 1 tablespoon flour wet with milk. Boil 2 minutes. Note. — Some kinds of green split peas do not need soaking and will cook in about 1 hour. The green split peas are nicer than the yellow and less expensive. First Aid to Good Cooking 119 PEA SOUP. 1 can peas. 2 tablespoons butter. 2 teaspoons sugar. 2 tablespoons flour. 1 pint cold water. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 pint milk. }i teaspoon pepper. Drain the peas, add sugar and cold water; cook very slowly 20 minutes. Rub through a sieve, reheat, thicken with the butter and flour cooked together, add the milk slowly, stir smooth ; add the salt and pepper. Serve very hot. CORN SOUP. Corn soup is made the same way, only use a can of corn instead of the peas, and chop the corn before putting over to simmer. After simmering 20 minutes, put through a sieve and finish as for pea soup. TOMATO BOUILLON. 3/2 can tomatoes. y2 onion. 2 pints boullion. Little salt. Y2 tablespoon sugar. Boil this until nearly one-half quantity ; strain ; season to taste. TOMATO BISQUE. ^2 can tomatoes. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 quart of milk. y2 saltspoon pepper. 2 tablespoons butter. 1 saltspoon soda. 2 tablespoons flour. Dash of cayenne. 1 tablespoon sugar. 1 onion scalded in milk. Stew tomatoes until very soft ; put through sieve ; put strained tomatoes in granite saucepan ; add the soda. When its stops foaming add the butter, little at a time; add salt and pepper. Put milk in dish on asbestos mat; 120 First Aid to Good Cooking stir in the flour mixed with a little of the milk, cook thoroughly ; then pour the tomatoes slowly into the milk ; beat well together. Serve at once. If put together and left to stand it is apt to curdle. TOMATO SOUP (without stock or milk). i quart can tomatoes. x teaspoon salt. 2 heaping teaspoons flour. i teaspoon sugar. i tablespoon snowdrift. I pint hot water. Half an onion sliced. i bay leaf.

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