Here’s an old recipe for homemade tomato soup to can, this was typed onto a slip of paper. Date unknown. Recipe is typed below as-is (spelling corrected) along with a scanned copy at the bottom.

Tomato Soup Materials

1 peck ripe tomatoes
6 large onions
1 small bunch parsley
1 large bunch celery

Put through food chopper cook until tender and strain. Mix 1/2 cup flour 1/2 cup butter 1/4 tsp red pepper 1/3 cup salt 1/2 cup sugar and add to the above.

Boil for five minutes or until thick can immediately.