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Tomato Sauce II

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

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Gather

Ingredients

  • ½ can Tomatoes
  • 1 teaspoon Sugar
  • 8 Peppercorns
  • As needed Bit of Bay Leaf
  • ½ teaspoon Salt
  • 4 tablespoons Butter
  • 4 tablespoons Flour
  • 1 cup Brown Stock

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Cook tomatoes twenty minutes with sugar, peppercorns, bay leaf, and salt; rub through a strainer, and add stock. Brown the butter, add flour, and when well browned, gradually add hot liquid.

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Where this recipe comes from

Tomato Sauce II, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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