Mrs Bailey’s Roasted Tomato Soup

Chaz Brenchley
2 min readOct 25, 2020

The nursery classic for grown-ups

Photo by Jenn Kosar on Unsplash

It is, perhaps even it must be, possible that somewhere on three planets breathes a human being who doesn’t like tomato soup. I’ve never met them, and certainly neither has Mrs Bailey. She probably wouldn’t even entertain the notion. It’s a staple on her table, in and out of term; and generations of girls have wheedled this recipe out of her, to take home for their mothers…

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Chaz Brenchley

I write. That’s what I do. Forty-five years a pro (and counting), and never a day job. Betweentimes I cook, and garden, and am very married.