Name: Fruit and Nut Tomatoes
Ingredients: two parts raisins cut fine; one alone

Fruit and Nut Tomatoes

A tomato stuffed with raisins, nuts, currants, citron, and sugar, baked and served plain or with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

Fruit and Nut Tomatoes

Ingredients

two parts raisins cut fine
one alone

Directions

Prepare

Mix equal parts chopped nuts, currants and fine cut citron with two parts raisins cut fine and a little sugar.
Fill hollowed and drained tomatoes.
Bake.

Serve

Serve plain or with cream or whipped cream.
Use raisins and coconut with sugar, or either one alone.

By Evora Bucknum Perkins. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Raisins: Provide sweetness and chewy body to the fruit filling.
Chopped nuts (in the method): Add crunch and richness that contrast with the soft filling.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.