Forced Tomatas

Modern cookery for private families · Acton, Eliza · 1845
Source
Modern cookery for private families
Time
Cook: 10 min Total: 10 min
Yield
8.0 tomatoes
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (9)
  1. Cut the stems quite close.
  2. Slice off the tops of eight fine tomatas.
  3. Scoop out the insides of the tomatas.
  4. Press the pulp through a sieve.
  5. Mix the pulp with one ounce of fine crumbs of bread, one ounce of butter broken very small, some pepper or cayenne, and salt.
  6. Fill the tomatas with the mixture.
  7. Bake them for ten minutes in a moderate oven.
  8. Serve them with brown gravy in the dish.
  9. If using, stew a few small mushrooms tender in a little butter, then mince and add to the tomata pulp.
Original Text
FORCED TOMATAS. (English Receipt.) Cut the stems quite close, slice off the tops of eight fine tomatas, and scoop out the insides; press the pulp through a sieve, and mix 328with it one ounce of fine crumbs of bread, one of butter broken very small, some pepper or cayenne, and salt. Fill the tomatas with the mixture, and bake them for ten minutes in a moderate oven; serve them with brown gravy in the dish. A few small mushrooms stewed tender in a little butter, then minced and added to the tomata pulp, will very much improve this receipt. Bake 10 minutes.
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