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Cream of Tomato Soup

A historical lunch recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Ingredients

  • ½ can Tomatoes
  • 2 teaspoons Sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon Soda
  • 1 quart Milk
  • 1 slice Onion
  • 4 tablespoons Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • ⅛ teaspoon Pepper
  • ⅓ cup Butter

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Scald milk with onion, remove onion, and thicken milk with flour diluted with cold water until thin enough to pour, being careful that the mixture is free from lumps; cook twenty minutes, stirring constantly at first.

  2. 2

    Cook tomatoes with sugar fifteen minutes, add soda, and rub through a sieve; combine mixtures, and strain into tureen over butter, salt, and pepper.

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Where this recipe comes from

Cream of Tomato Soup, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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Historical measurements, equipment, temperatures and terminology may differ from modern kitchen practice.