Tomato Flowers

Ingredients

• small, well-shaped tomatoes
• two hard boiled eggs
• stiff mayonnaise
• small piece of Russian caviar
• small lettuce leaf

Method

1. 1

   Select small, well-shaped tomatoes, peel and put on ice until chilled.

2. 2

   Cut, beginning at top, five-pointed flower-like petals, leaving a straight piece of the tomato in center.

3. 3

   Pass the yolks and whites of two hard boiled eggs through sieve and place some of the white of egg around bottom of tomato center, then add powdered yolks of egg.

4. 4

   On top of tomato center place stiff mayonnaise and in center of this place a piece of Russian caviar.

5. 5

   On point of each petal place stiff mayonnaise, with small piece of Russian caviar in center.

6. 6

   Put tomato on small lettuce leaf on plates and serve cold.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kirmess cook book (1907), page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TOMATO FLOWERS. Atlanta, Georgia. Select small, well-shaped tomatoes, peel and put on ice until chilled Cut, beginning at top, five-pointed flower-like petals, leaving a straight piece of the tomato in center, diaped like yellow center of calla lily. Pass the yolks and whites of two hard boiled eggs through seive and place some of the white of egg around bottom of tomato center, then add powdered yolks of egg. On top of tomato center place stiff mayonnaise and in center of this place a piece of Russian caviar. On point of each petal place stiff mayonnaise, with small piece of Rus- sian caviar in center. Put tomato on small lettuce leaf

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