The Fireless Cook Book / A Manual of the Construction and Use of Appliances for Cooking by Retained Heat, with 250 Recipes

by Margaret Johnes Mitchell

Tomato Sauce

• ¹⁄₂ can tomatoes, or
• 2 cups raw tomatoes
• 1 slice onion
• ¹⁄₂ bay leaf
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ¹⁄₈ teaspoon pepper
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons flour
• ¹⁄₂ cup water or stock

Cook all the ingredients but the butter and flour in a cooker for one hour or more. Rub them through a strainer and add this, gradually, to the blended butter and flour.