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Cream of Tomato Soup


Prep
Cook
Serves
4

Directions

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

Notes from the cook

From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896) by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Public domain. Digitized by Project Gutenberg (eBook #65061).

Added by Craig Zeldin · May 12, 2026