Tomato Soup, With Stock Recipe

Ingredients for Tomato Soup, With Stock Recipe

• 6 tomatoes, or 1 qt. canned tomatoes
• 1 onion
• 2 cloves
• 6 peppercorns
• Bit of celery root, or½ teaspoon celery seed
• 1 tablespoon flour, 1 tablespoon butter} for every quart of soup

Instructions

1. with Stock Recipe, Take bones and trimmings from roast beef and any other scraps of meat or bone.
2. Put in kettle and cover with cold water, twice as much water as meat.
3. Add seasonings and cook for four hours.
4. Skim off fat, add tomatoes, and cook thirty minutes.
5. Skim out bones and meat and strain liquor through a puree strainer, rubbing all tomato pulp through.
6. Heat and thicken with flour, cooked in the butter.