(For Chops, Beefsteak, Cutlets or Fish.)

1/2 can tomatoes.

1 cupful water (or stock).

2 cloves

1 teaspoonful herbs, mixed. 1 sprig parsley, minced (may be omitted).

1 teaspoonful salt.

A little black pepper.

A speck of cayenne pepper. 1 teaspoonful chopped onion. 1 tablespoonful butter.

2table spoonfuls flour.

Boil together all but the last three ingredients, and strain. Fry the onion in the butter till yellow, and add the flour mixed to a cream with cold water.

When all is well mixed, pour into the frying-pan gradually the strained tomato. Cook all together five minutes, and strain again. Pour it while hot over the chops, cutlets, or whatever you choose.

Tomato Sauce (Simpler)

1 can tomatoes. 1 small onion. 2 sprigs parsley.

1 teaspoonful butter. 1 tablespoonful flour. Red pepper.

Put the tomatoes over the fire, with the onion and parsley ; when they have boiled some twenty minutes, strain them through a sieve. Put the butter into a sauce-pan, and when it bubbles sprinkle in the flour, which let cook, stirring well. Then pour in the tomato pulp; season highly with red pepper ; if lumpy, strain.

Excellent Tomato Sauce can be made by pulping what may be left of "Fried Tomatoes," and heating it without any additions.

Tomato Sauce With White Sauce

1/2 peck tomatoes.

2 small carrots, cut fine.

1 onion, cut fine.

2ounces salt pork, cut fine. 2 ounces raw ham, cut fine. 4 ounces butter.

2 ounces flour.

1 quart "White Sauce."

Pepper and salt.

1 bunch of parsley.

1 tablespoonful sugar.

Wash the tomatoes, bruise, and put them in a sauce-pan over a slow fire to dissolve. Put into another sauce-pan, the vegetables, salt pork and ham, with half the butter; stir over the fire until the butter turns clear. Then add the flour, sprinkling it in gradually. Cook a little longer, and add the tomato (strained), and the White Sauce. Mix well and season. Put in the parsley. Cover and boil slowly forty minutes, stirring occasionally. Strain through a sieve. Boil again a few minutes, adding the rest of the butter.