Devilled Tomatoes
Ingredients
- 3 tomatoes
- Salt and pepper
- Flour
- Butter for sautéing
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoons powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- Few grains cayenne
- Yolk 1 “hard-boiled” egg
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons vinegar
Steps
- Wipe, peel, and cut tomatoes in slices. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, dredge with flour, and sauté in butter. Place on a hot platter and pour over the dressing made by creaming the butter, adding dry ingredients, yolk of egg rubbed to a paste, egg beaten slightly, and vinegar, then cooking over hot water, stirring constantly until it thickens.
More recipes with tomatoes, flour, butter, powdered sugar, mustard, cayenne pepper, eggs or vinegar
From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.