Old Fashioned Tomato Sauce [1]

1 half can tomatoes

1/8 teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon sugar

6 peppercorns

2 cloves

Sliced medium size onion

Pinch of bay leaf

1/2 teaspoon salt

Few grains cayenne pepper

4 tablespoons butter

3 tablespoons flour

1 cup vegetable stock

1

Heat tomatoes to boiling point
2

add soda and the seven ingredients following it in the list
3

Cook for twenty minutes
4

Rub through a purée strainer
5

Add the stock
6

Brown the butter in a sauce-pan, add flour and continue browning, stirring constantly
7

Add hot tomato mixture slowly, mix well

Cooks Note

A great old fashioned and slightly cheating tomato sauce