Melt butter, add flour. Cook remaining ingredients together twenty minutes. Press through a sieve and thicken with flour mixture. If tomato lacks flavor, season highly with Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco sauce.

Tomato Bisque Soup

Melt butter, add onion, cook five minutes; add flour, milk and seasonings, cook in double boiler twenty minutes. Cook tomatoes, press through a sieve, add soda. Combine mixtures and strain. Serve immediately. If tomato is very acid, it may be necessary to add more soda to neutralize.

Tomato Soup with Stock

Melt butter, add green pepper and onion, cook five minutes; add tomato, horse-radish, stock and seasonings. Thicken with butter and flour cooked together. Simmer ten minutes, strain, add macaroni and serve. This soup unstrained would be a purée.

Turnip Soup