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New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 7, 18 February 1893, Page 166

ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

Two Ways to Prepare Tomatoes (Freda). —Fried Tomatoes : Select medium-sized solid fruit. With a sharp knife, cut out the stem and blow-ends and cut in about three slices. Dip these into beaten egg, then in prepared crumbs, and fry in very hot butter, seasoning with salt and pepper. Turn them repeatedly, but with great care, and let them cook for half to three-quarters of an hour. Lift them carefully into a dish, press the crumbs which have fallen from the pieces into little round balls and place them around the edge of the dish among sprigs of parsley. This is one of the most delicious ways in which tomatoes can be prepared. S tewed Tomatoes.—Select about six good-sized, fully ripened tomatoes. Put them in a dish and pour boiling water over them, to remove the skin. Cut them in pieces, place them in a stew-pan with one small onion shredded, season with pepper and salt, cover closely and cook slowly for about two hours. Serve with a garnish of parsley and lemon sliced as thin as a sheet of paper. The red of the fruit with the yellow and green of the garnish makes a very attractive dish. Besides, tomatoes cooked in this way are specially healthful, and may be eaten even by invalids with perfect impunity.