2 tablespoons butter

3 tablespoons flour

1 slice onion

Cook tomatoes, water, peppercorns, bay leaf, cloves, and sugar twenty minutes; strain, and add salt and soda; bind, and strain into tureen.

Cream of Tomato Soup

½ can tomatoes

2 teaspoons sugar

¼ teaspoon soda

1 quart milk

1 slice onion