Southern Tomato Soup

Ingredients

• Two quarts of tomatoes, hot water
• One cucumber, peeled and cut small, one large onion sliced
• One dozen sliced okras
• Five cents marrowbone, flour wet with water
• Seasoning salt, cayenne and three pats of butter.

Directions

1. Wash two quarts of tomatoes, and set over the fire in three pints of water.
2. Cook ten minutes, and drain, saving the water for the soup.
3. Press the tomatoes through a sieve
4. Add to them one cucumber, peeled and cut small, one large onion sliced, one dozen sliced okras, a five cent marrowbone.
5. Drain water from the tomatoes and simmer for three hours.
6. Just before sending to table thicken with a tablespoonful of flour wet with cold water.
7. Season with salt, cayenne and three pats of butter.
8. Ready for serve delicious southern tomato soup.

Source - Cooking In Old Creole Days

Prepared by Anuj Bhandari

Louisiana Anthology

January 6, 2015