Tomato Sauce I (without Stock)

Name: Tomato Sauce I (without Stock)
Ingredients: ½ can tomatoes or; 1¾ cups fresh stewed tomatoes; 1 slice onion; 3 tablespoons butter; 3 tablespoons flour; ¼ teaspoon salt; ⅛ teaspoon pepper

Ingredients

½ can tomatoes or
1¾ cups fresh stewed tomatoes
1 slice onion
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
¼ teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon pepper

Steps

Cook onion with tomatoes fifteen minutes, rub through a strainer, and add to butter and flour (to which seasonings have been added) cooked together. If tomatoes are very acid, add a few grains of soda. If tomatoes are to retain their red color it is necessary to brown butter and flour together before adding the tomatoes.

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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.