SOME TOMATO DISHES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 7 (Supplement)

SOME TOMATO DISHES

APPETISING savouries Baked .Stuffed Tomatoes—Six tomatoes three mushrooms, one tablespoonful butter, one tablespoonful breadcrumbs, chopped parsley, onion, bacon (or chicken livers), a little lemon juice, salt and pepper seasoning. Chop the mushrooms, onion and bacon, and until tender in melted butter. Mix in a basin with the breadcrumbs, parsley, lemon juice and seasoning. Cut off the top from CJK-h tomato and add the pulp to the ingredients. Mix until stiff and stuff the empty tomato cases with the mixture. Replace the caps which you cut off, and ba.kc for about 10 minutes iu a moderate oven. Serve on slices of fried bacon, or on rounds of thin toast.

Tomato Rarebit.—Melt a dessertspoonful of butter in a saucepan and mix with/it a dessertspoonful of flour. Gradually add a small teacupful of milk and stir* until boiling. Have in readiness a teacupful of tomato puree which has been made by rubbing tomatoes through a , sieve. Add 3oz. of grated cheese, with a.pinch of baking soda and a suggestion of cayenne, and make thoroughly hot. Beat one egg and a little of the mixture to it, returning all to thd pan, but do not boil. Pour oh to buttered toast, sprinkle with chopped parsley, and serve very hot. This is very nice for breakfast. Marrow' Stuffed with Tomatoes. — Peel the marrow, remove the seeds and cut out the pulp. Mix this with a chopped onion, some chopped parsley, two large tomatoes, salt and pepper, a small crushed clove of garlic, two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese and 2oz. of breadcrumbs. Fry all together until a light brown, then mix with a beaten egg. Fill the marrow with this, tie together, and bake in the oven in a fireproof dish with some stock at the bottom. , J Eggs and Tomatoes Baked in Oven. ■ —Cut tomatoes in slices, sprinkle with ealt and pepper, dredge well with flour, then fry in butter. Put into a greased fireproof dish, break eggs on top, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and a little grated cheese, or bits of butter on top, and bak§ until whites of eggs are set.