Hot Tomato Juice Cocktail
Source of Recipe
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Recipe Introduction
The compilers suggest a St. Valentine's Day toast to Frederick Douglass with this old-fashioned vegetable juice starter -- a precursor of V8. They describe orator Douglass as "anchor man in the abolitionist cause for freedom of all people."
List of Ingredients
1 quart tomato juice
2 stalks of celery, cut in 1-inch pieces
4 thin slices onion
12 cardamon seeds (green or white), hulled
1 tablespoon lemon Recipe
Combine the first four ingredients in a saucepan.
Cover and heat to boiling, then simmer 5 to 10 minutes, or to taste.
Strain, then add lemon juice and serve hot.
Makes about a quart.
"The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro,"
National Council of Negro Women, 1958, (reprinted in 2000)
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