Tomato Sauce

Description/Notes:

Nothing beats a good home-made sauce like this one that's free of all artificial flavouring and colouring

Ingredients:

5-6 large tomatoes, diced

1 rasher bacon, diced

1 small onion, diced

salt and pepper

half a pint (285ml) stock

bay leaf

1 medium carrot, diced

half a teaspoon of sugar

1 oz. (13g) butter

half an ounce (7g) flour

Cooking Instructions:

Put the butter in a saucepan over a gentle heat to melt
Add the carrot, onion and bacon then toss but do allow to brown
Add the tomatoes and carefully simmer for about 5 minutes
Add the flour and bay leaf to the stock, blend and stir in to the tomato mixture
Simmer over a gentle heat for a further 30 minutes, stirring occasionally
Strain the mixture through a sieve, add the sugar, and season to taste with salt and pepper