TOMATO SAUCE
- ½ lb. tomatoes or 1 can of tomatoes
- 1 onion
- A bunch sweet herbs
- ½ pint (1 cup) stock or water
- ½ teaspoonful salt
- A few drops of red coloring
- 1 carrot
- 1 turnip
- 2 ozs. (2 heaping tablespoonfuls) butter
- 1 oz. (1 heaping tablespoonful) flour
- 4 whole peppers
- Bunch of parsley
- Blade of mace
- 1 bay leaf
Put the butter into a casserole with the carrot, turnip, onion, and tomatoes cut up into pieces, add the herbs, parsley, bay leaf, whole peppers, and mace, and fry for ten minutes, then add the flour, the stock or water, salt, and red coloring, stir till boiling, then simmer slowly for forty minutes, rub through a sieve, reheat, and serve.