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Tomatoes, Baked

Slice the stalks, with the green part that adheres to them, from six or eight ripe tomatoes. Season the fruit with pepper and salt, and sprinkle bread-crumbs thickly over. Divide about two ounces of fresh butter into little pieces, and place these here and there upon them. Bake in a moderate oven. Serve on a hot dish as an accompaniment to roast meat of all kinds. If liked, the tomatoes may be cut into slices, or into halves, instead of being baked whole, and they will not then require so much time for baking. Time to bake, from twenty to thirty minutes--till they are quite soft without breaking. Sufficient for five or six persons. Probable cost, tomatoes, 2d. to 6d. per pound.