Tomato Tart

Ingredients

• a pound of tomatoes
• some powdered ginger
• salt
• the juice of a lemon
• some sugar to taste
• one well-beaten egg
• a couple of tablespoonfuls of cream
• put on the crust

Method

1. 1

   Skin and cut the tomatoes into slices and lay them in a tart-dish.

2. 2

   Sift over powdered ginger and salt.

3. 3

   Make a tomato purée with the tomatoes, lemon juice, sugar, and beaten egg.

4. 4

   Mix in cream and pour over the stewed tomatoes.

5. 5

   Bake with the crust on top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Puddings and Pastry à la Mode (1889) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tomato Tart. Take a pound of tomatoes, skin and cut them into slices and lay them in a tart-dish, and sift over them some powdered ginger and salt ; then make a tomato pur^e of tomatoes, the juice of a lemon, some sugar to taste, and one well-beaten egg ; mix all together, then add in a couple of table- spoonfuls of cream and pour over the stewed tomatoes, and put on the crust

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