WINTER TOMATO BISQUE - COUNTRY LIVING

      Title: WINTER TOMATO BISQUE - COUNTRY LIVING
  Categories: Holidays, Soups
       Yield: 8 Servings
  
       2 tb Butter or margarine
       1 lg Onion, chopped
     1/3 c  Unsifted all-purpose flour
       2 ts Dried tarragon or savory
            -leaves
     1/4 ts Salt
     1/4 ts Ground black pepper
       1 cn (10 1/2-oz) condensed
            -chicken broth
       1 c  Water
     1/3 c  Dried tomato bits or 8
            -dried plum tomato halves,
            -chopped (see Note)
       1 lb Ripe tomatoes (see Note)
       1 cn (11 1/8-oz) condensed
            -Italian tomato soup or
            -1 10 3/4-oz can condensed
            -tomato soup
   2 1/2 c  Milk
     1/2 c  Half-and-half
            Chopped fresh tarragon or
            -savory leaves and sprigs
            -(opt.)
  
   1. In 4-quart saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Add onion and
   saute until tender. Stir flour, tarragon, salt, and pepper into onion
   until well mixed. Gradually stir in undiluted broth and water until
   well combined. Add tomato bits and heat mixture to boiling, stirring
   constantly. Cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer soup 10 minutes,
   stirring occasionally.
   
   2. Meanwhile, peel, seed, and dice tomatoes. Stir undiluted tomato
   soup, milk, and half-and-half into soup until well mixed. Increase
   heat to medium-high and heat soup until bubbles appear around side of
   pan. Do not boil. Stir in diced tomatoes and heat through. Ladle soup
   into bowls. If desired, sprinkle soup with chopped herbs and place
   bowls onto plates garnished with sprigs of herbs.
   
   Note: Dried tomato bits or halves are available in the produce
   section of most major supermarkets. For several free dried-tomato
   recipe booklets, write Timber Crest Farms, Dried Tomato Ideas, 4791
   Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg, Calif. 95448. Include a self-addressed,
   stamped large envelope (SASE). For recipes using fresh tomatoes in
   salads, stews, and casseroles, send a SASE to Favorite Tomato
   Recipes, Florida Tomato Committee, Box 140533, Suite CL, Orlando,
   Fla. 32814-0533.
   
   Country Living/December/92 Scanned & fixed by Di Pahl &
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