"Tomato soup is a much relished American dish, and is prepared as follows:

• Steam, or rather stew slowly, a mess of turnips, carrots, and onions, and also a stalk of celery, with half a pound of lean ham and a little bit of fresh butter over a slow fire for an hour or so.
• Then add two quarts of diluted stock or of other liquor in which meat has been boiled, and also eight or ten ripe tomatoes.
• Stew the whole for an hour and a half, then pass through the sieve into the pan again;
• add a little pepper and salt, boil for ten minutes and serve hot."