[Sca-cooks] tomato soup

[Terry Decker]

Does Smith suggest that the popularity of tomato soup is due to Campbell's 
Condensed Tomato Soup?

Bear

> Now having the time to look at said book, I can
> report that he cites a circa 1770 recipe from the Horry
> papers that makes concentrated tomato sauce that is
> then used for soups. There are a number of 19th century recipes
> including an 1824 one from Cooke's Cookery and Confectionary.
> Another appears in Lee's Cook's Own Book in 1832.
>
> Johnnae