Mock Bisque Soup

A dish where tomatoes and sugar do the work.

Soups Without Stock

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
  • ½ can tomatoes
  • 10 ml sugar
  • 1 ml soda
  • ½ onion, stuck with 6 cloves
  • Sprig of parsley
  • Bit of bay leaf
  • 180 ml stale bread crumbs
  • 950 ml milk
  • 7 ml salt
  • 1 ml pepper
  • 80 ml butter
Make it lactose-friendly
  • 4 cups milk → lactose-free milk, oat milk, or almond milk
  • ⅓ cup butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil

Swaps are suggestions, not medical advice. Check labels if lactose is a serious issue for you.

Steps

  1. Scald the milk with the bread crumbs, onion stuck with cloves, parsley, and bay leaf.
  2. Remove the onion, parsley, and bay leaf, then rub the bread and milk mixture through a sieve.
  3. In a separate pot, cook the tomatoes with the sugar for fifteen minutes.
  4. Add the soda to the tomatoes, then rub the mixture through a sieve.
  5. Reheat the bread and milk mixture to the boiling point.
  6. Add the strained tomatoes to the bread and milk mixture.
  7. Put the butter, salt, and pepper in a tureen and pour the hot soup over them at once.
  8. Serve with croûtons or crisp crackers.

Steps last refined 2026-11-12 — we sharpen our recipes every week, so check back.

Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
Calories384
Protein11.0 g
Fat24.4 g
Carbs31.1 g
Fiber1.5 g
Sodium1142 mg

Source

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Fannie Farmer, pub. domain) — Public domain in the United States