Mock Bisque Soup

Name: Mock Bisque Soup
Ingredients: ½ can tomatoes; 2 teaspoons sugar; ¼ teaspoon soda; ½ onion, stuck with 6 cloves; Sprig of parsley; Bit of bay leaf; ¾ cup stale bread crumbs; 4 cups milk; ½ tablespoon salt; ⅛ teaspoon pepper; ⅓ cup butter

Ingredients

½ can tomatoes
2 teaspoons sugar
¼ teaspoon soda
½ onion, stuck with 6 cloves
Sprig of parsley
Bit of bay leaf
¾ cup stale bread crumbs
4 cups milk
½ tablespoon salt
⅛ teaspoon pepper
⅓ cup butter

Steps

Scald milk with bread crumbs, onion, parsley, and bay leaf. Remove seasonings and rub through a sieve. Cook tomatoes with sugar fifteen minutes; add soda and rub through a sieve. Reheat bread and milk to boiling-point, add tomatoes, and pour at once into tureen over butter, salt, and pepper. Serve with croûtons, crisp crackers, or Souffléd crackers.

More recipes with tomatoes, baking soda, onion, cloves, parsley, bay leaves, breadcrumbs, milk or butter

From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.