The Thorough Good Cook
by George Augustus Sala
recipes from 1896

A digital version of a rare antique cookbook originally published in 1896 for those who want to kick it Olde Skool !
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The Thorough Good Cook by George Augustus Sala is now in the public domain. The recipes are original and unadulterated, of course!

RECIPE

 

 
  39. Tomato Soup.

  Boil some tomatoes and pass them through a sieve.
Brown some butter with a dessert-spoonful of flour. Pour in
some stock; then put in the tomatoes, with pepper and salt.
When the whole has boiled up thoroughly, add a wineglassful
of pale sherry and a small quantity of Nepaul pepper, pour
the whole on to some crusts which you have fried in butter,
and serve.

 
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