This section is from the book "Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea.
1 quart fine smooth tomatoes. The "Trophy," if you can get them. 1 cup bread-crumbs. 1 small onion, minced fine. 1 teaspoonful white sugar. 1 table-spoonful butter - melted. Cayenne and salt.
1/2 cup good broth.
Cut a piece from the top of each tomato. "With a teaspoon take out the inside, leaving a hollow shell. Chop the pulp fine, mix with the crumbs, butter, sugar, pepper, salt and onion. Fill the cavities of the tomatoes with this stuffing; replace the tops; pack them in a baking-dish and fill the interstices with the stuffing. Pour the gravy also into these; set the dish covered in an oven, and bake half an hour, before uncovering, after which brown lightly, and send to table in the baking-dish.
 
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