Tomato soup

13 chopped medium fresh tomatoes
1 chopped  onion
2 chopped cloves garlic
5 whole cloves
2 t basil
1 t thyme
2 cups chicken or beef broth
1/4 C bacon grease

1/4 C all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon sugar, or to taste

salt and pepper to taste

 

Saute onions, garlic, cloves, basil, and thyme in a tablespoon of olive oil in your stock pot. Add tomatoes. Cook till everything is soft and smells lovely. Remove cloves. Put everything in the pan through the blender. In empty pot, heat bacon grease, stir in flour, brown. Add blender stuff back to pan, stirring well. Add broth, sugar, salt and pepper.