Tomato soup?

Mitch said:

I have 2 quarts of our canned garden tomatoes. I was going to make
pasta tonight (again), but I thought a nice tomato soup would be good.

Any recipes?

I posted this back in 2003 🙂
Austrian Tomato Soup
from Austrian Cooking & Baking, circa 1951, by Gretel Baer
(book sent to me by Margaret Suran)

2 lbs. tomatoes
1 onion
2 carrots
small piece celaeric
3 oz. butter
a little lemon juice
sugar to taste
2 oz. cooked rice
grated lemon rind
bay leaf
salt & pepper

Wash tomatoes; cut into halves. Scrape carrots; slice. Cut onion finely.
Melt butter; fry onion until golden brown. Sprinkle with flour; fry
lightly. Add halved tomatoes, carrots, celaeric, bay leaf, lemon rind and
salt & pepper. Cover well with water and simmer until vegetables are
tender. Pass through a sieve [into another cooking pot]. Add sugar and
lemon juice. Do not be afraid of adding a generous amount of sugar - about
3 tablespoons - tomato soup should have a distinctly sweet flavour.

Place the cooked rice in the center of each soup bowl. Pour hot tomato soup
over it and serve.

Jill

Mitch said:

I have 2 quarts of our canned garden tomatoes. I was going to make
pasta tonight (again), but I thought a nice tomato soup would be good.

Any recipes?

Or this is my dietetic version of Italian crema di pomodoro-- it's just
as good.

Cook one cup of rice with salted water separately.

1/2 onion
1Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 kilo (2.2 pounds) tomatoes
1/ liter milk of which I use skimmed

Chop the onion. Heat the oil in a large heavy pot and sauté the onion
with the salt until really cooked but not browned.

Add the tomatoes, cleaned and cut into pieces. Cook until the tomatoes
are completely softened. Pass through a foodmill or sieve. Return to
the pot and bring to a simmer. VERY slowly, a spoonful at a time at
first, stir in the milk until you've added about 1/4 or 1/3. Then just
pour it all in. Stir well. Taste for salt and correct. Bring to a
simmer and serve over some of the rice in a soup bowl.

Can also be done with tinned tomatoes in winter.

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Mitch Mitch@... said:

Any recipes?

Consider pappa col pomodoro, a thick Tuscan tomato-bread soup. Here is
a typical recipe from from _Cucina Italiana_, compiled by the Accademia
Italiana della Cucina.

Victor

Pappa col pomodoro

9 ounces stale coarse bread
1 1/2 pounds ripe tomatoes (or substitute canned)
4 cloves garlic
1 sprig parsley
2 basil leaves
scant 4 1/2 cups meat stock
1 tablespoon olive oil
salt
freshly ground pepper

Cut the bread into even rounds and toast lightly in the oven. Rinse the
tomatoes, cut them in half and scoop out the seeds. Peel the garlic
cloves and leave whole. Place with the tomatoes, parsley and basil
leaves in a saucepan. Sauté lightly for a few minutes, then put the
contents through a sieve and return to the saucepan (canned tomatoes can
be put through a sieve at once). Add the stock, the toasted bread, the
oil, salt to taste and plenty of pepper. Simmer slowly until the soup
is thick. Serve hot or chilled.

Thanks for your replies...they both sound great.
I just planted 30 tomato plants last week.

Last year was a bad year for us, so most of them rotted on the vine.
But I expect to put away a LOT of tomatoes this year.

Victor Sack said:

Quoted message said:

Any recipes?

Quoted message said:

Consider pappa col pomodoro, a thick Tuscan tomato-bread soup. Here
is a typical recipe from from _Cucina Italiana_, compiled by the
Accademia Italiana della Cucina.

A side note: this dish was made famous by a song from the fifties or
sixties, sang by Rita Pavone in a movie where she played the part of
Gianburrasca, whose name gave the title to the movie, who was a young brat.
The movie has been so famous that Gianburrasca has found a place in everyday
italian as a name for pest children. The song was the signature tune of the
movie, and the refrain was "Viva la pappa col pomodoro" (hail the pappa col
pomodoro).
Guess what? About half of the italian children from my generation, and a
couple ones before mine, got theyr mums to cook'em a "pappa col pomodoro" at
least once 🙂
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

Vilco said:

Victor Sack said:

Consider pappa col pomodoro

A side note: this dish was made famous by a song from the fifties or
sixties, sang by Rita Pavone in a movie where she played the part of
Gianburrasca, whose name gave the title to the movie, who was a young brat.
The movie has been so famous that Gianburrasca has found a place in everyday
italian as a name for pest children. The song was the signature tune of the
movie, and the refrain was "Viva la pappa col pomodoro" (hail the pappa col
pomodoro).
Guess what? About half of the italian children from my generation, and a
couple ones before mine, got theyr mums to cook'em a "pappa col pomodoro" at
least once 🙂

Very interesting! I did not know any of that.

Victor