End Of The Season Tomato Soup Recipe

Directions:

1. In a pot place the tomatoes,( except the diced t one ) water,onion and cloves and bring to a boil and then simmer about 15 to 20 minutes
2. Using a food mill, strain the liquid into another pot, discarding any pulp, seeds etc
3. Season tomato liquid to taste with sugar, salt, fresh grated black pepper and dried basil.
4. Mix the flour and butter together into a paste ( this can be done ahead of time and chilled )
5. Reheat soup and add the butter/flour mixture into the soup and heat and stir until soup thickens
6. Stir in the remaining diced tomato
7. This soup test best if allowed to cool and reheated again
8. Garnish with fresh basil if desired
9. Note: this fresh tomato soup will not be bright red as the supermarket canned soups because fresh tomatoes were used and no tomato puree or concentrate product was used-