Baked Tomatoes

6 tomatoes 

1 cup bread-crumbs

4 Tbsps. fat 

1 tsp. sugar

Salt and pepper

Peel the tomatoes and cut them in slices one-fourth inch thick. Place a layer of tomatoes in a pudding-dish, and sprinkle over them a little salt and pepper. Rub the fat into the crumbs with the sugar. Spread the mixture thickly upon the tomatoes, using all of it. And add another layer of tomatoes. Add bits of butter or other fat, sprinkle with dry crumbs, and bake (35o- 400 F.) twenty minutes.