Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

• ⅓ cup butter
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• ¾ teaspoon salt
• Few grains pepper
• 1 small can condensed tomato
• ⅔ lb. lean beef

Steps

1. Cook first four ingredients eight minutes. Add tomato, 1 pint of water, and beef cut in small pieces, and cook one and one-half hours. Remove meat before serving. Ravioli is a national Italian dish, and the cheese and condensed tomato may be best bought of an Italian grocer.

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