Fresh Tomato Juice - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 lb. fully ripe tomatoes
1 Tbsp. minced onion
3 fresh basil leaves
2 peppercorns, crushed
1 tsp. salt
lemon slices or tiny leafy celery ribs
celery salt

Preparation

Wash tomatoes; remove cores and cut into quarters.
Put in stainless steel kettle with onion, basil, peppercorns and salt. Simmer over low heat, stirring often and mashing tomatoes to soften to a juicy mush.
Put the mixture through a food mill.
If you want a thinner juice, put the milled puree through a fine strainer.
Add more salt to taste.
Chill.