This section is from the book "Pipe Organ Cook Book", by Ladies of First Presbyterian Church Aledo, Illinois. Also available from Amazon: The Way to Cook.
One pint tomatoes, 3 pints boiling water. Let these boil then add 1 pint milk, 1 teaspoonful soda, season to taste with butter, pepper and salt. Mrs. J. G. Sexton.
Take 1 can tomatoes and 2 sliced onions, boil one hour, strain, add a little soda (about the size of 2 beans) and 1 quart of milk, salt and pepper to taste, butter about the size of a hickory nut, let come to a boil and serve at once.
Mrs. C. K. Marquis.
Strain 1 can of tomatoes and boil with one pint of chicken or beef stock, and one-half pint of water if tomatoes are thick. Add butter size of walnut. Pour in slowly while boiling one-half teacup of cream into which 1 tablespoonful of flour has been smoothly beaten. Add salt and a very little red pepper.
Pearl Love.
One quart soup stock, one quart tomatoes strained, one onion chopped fine. After they have boiled, add one coffee cup milk, salt, pepper and a little thickening just before serving.
Minota Bassett.
 
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