Tomato Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 small onion, chopped
3 Tbsp. butter
6 large ripe tomatoes
2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 to 1/2 tsp. sage
1 c. heavy cream or half and half
1 c. milk
4 Tbsp. flour

Preparation

Peel tomatoes; seed and chop.
(Place tomatoes in boiling water for about 1 minute, then place in cold water; skins will come right off.)
Remove seeds and squish tomatoes through your fingers.
(I find this much more entertaining than chopping.) Saute onion in butter about 5 minutes.
Add tomatoes, salt, soda and sage.
Simmer about 15 minutes.
Mix milk and flour and add slowly.
Add cream and heat.
Normally we double this recipe.