Tomatoes - Sicilian

Ingredients

• six large firm tomatoes
• two tablespoons of olive oil
• an onion
• a slice of ham or bacon
• a heaping dessert spoon of brown sugar
• half a cup of bread crumbs
• salt
• paprika

Method

1. 1

   Wash and scoop out tomatoes, placing them in a pudding dish.

2. 2

   Mix tomato pulp with olive oil, onion, ham, salt, paprika, brown sugar, and bread crumbs.

3. 3

   Fill the tomato cups with the mixture, sprinkle with cheese and more crumbs, and bake in a slow oven for two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Pan-Pacific cook book (1915) by L. L. McLaren, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TOMATOES— SICILIAN Wash six large firm tomatoes, cut a circle in the stem end and scoop out half of the interior; then place them in a pudding dish. Add two tablespoons of olive oil, an onion and slice of ham or bacon, chopped fine, salt, paprika and a heaping dessert spoon of brown sugar and small pinch of allspice to the tomato pulp, and stew it with half a cup of bread crumbs

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