Recipe(tried): Tomato Soup for Ahmed

This is a very traditional recipe.

Tomato Soup

1/2 can tomatoes
or
1 pound fresh tomatoes
1/2 ounce chopped onion
1 ounce butter
1 pint milk
1/2 ounce flour
1/2 teaspoon sugar
Salt and pepper
1 pint boiling water

Melt the butter in a saucepan, and cook the onion in it for five minutes.

Add the tomatoes and water, and cook for thirty minutes. If fresh tomatoes are used, they should be sliced and cooked in the butter with the onion. Run the tomatoes through a sieve.

Mix the flour smoothly with a little of the milk, and put the rest into the saucepan. When boiling, add the flour, and cook for ten minutes. Add the tomato, and boil. Season and serve.