Tomato Sauce

This recipe is similar to the Fresh Tomato Soup recipe in an adjacent post, Simple and Delicious.

Ingredients:
1/2lb fresh tomatoes
1/2pint white stock
1/2 oz butter
Pinch of salt
2 teaspoons of cornflour
piece of carrot
1 small onion
Scraps of bacon
Pepper

Method:
Melt the butter and fry the bacon and vegetables without the coloring. Add the stock, seasoning and tomatoes. bring to boiling point, cover and transfer to a simmering oven for 30 minutes. Pass through a fine sieve or liquidizer and return to the pan. Blend in the cornflour and a little cold stock, and add to the strained liquid and stir until boiling. color with carmine to taste.

Fresh tomato soup

This delicious recipe can be made and consumed immediately or stored frozen for 3 or 4 months.

Ingredients:

1lb of fresh tomatoes
11/2 ozs butter
1 onion
1 carrot
A few drops of carmon
A few scraps of bacon
1 pint of white stock
1/4 pint milk
Bouquet garni
Seasoning
1 teaspoon full of sugar
2 heaped teaspoonfulls of cornflower.

Method:
Slice the onion and carrot and saute with the bacon for about 5 minutes.
Add the tomatoes, stock, seasoning and bouquet garni. bring to the boil then simmer gently for about 5 minutes. Cover and transfer into a simmering oven for 30-40 minutes. Pas through a fine sieve or liquidizer and return to the pan.
Blend the cornflower with the milk, add to the soup stir untill boiling. cook for 5 minutes add the sugar and carmine and serve.