Auntie's Okra Gumbo

Ingredients

• a spoonful of pure lard
• one of flour
• Chop an onion into small pieces
• Cut up a fat capon or chicken
• a slice of ham cut up small
• two or three pods of red pepper
• a quart of boiling water
• six fresh tomatoes
• half a can of tomatoes
• dry rice served in a separate dish

Method

1. 1

   Put lard and flour in a saucepan and stir until light brown.

2. 2

   Add chopped onion and chicken, stirring until chicken is nearly done.

3. 3

   When browned, add ham, red pepper, and salt.

4. 4

   Add boiling water and simmer for 2.5 hours.

5. 5

   Chop okra and simmer with a little water for 15 minutes.

6. 6

   Add okra and tomatoes to gumbo and simmer for an hour.

7. 7

   Serve hot with dry rice.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Aunts' Cook Book (1922) by [name missing], page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Auntie's Okra Gumbo Put into a saucepan a spoonful of pure lard and one of flour. Stir it well until it is of a light brown. Chop an onion into small pieces and throw them in. Cut up a fat capon or chicken into small pieces and put it into the saucepan with the flour and lard. Stir it all the while until the chicken is nearly done. When the whole is well browned, add a slice of ham cut up small. Throw in two or three pods of red pepper, and salt 17 18 Soup and Stock to your taste. Then add a quart of boiling water, and leave it on the fire for two hours and a half. During that time you take either a can of okra^ or the fresh okra, and chop it up a bit. Put it in a saucepan with a little water and let it simmer a quarter of an hour, stirring it all the time. Then add to it either six fresh tomatoes, or half a can of tomatoes and let it cook on a slow fire for an hour, uncovered. When your gumbo has been on the fire the two hours and a half you put it back in the sauce pan and add your okra and tomatoes and let it simmer slowly for an hour or until the okra is thoroughly cooked. Serve hot, and eat it with dry rice served in a separate dish

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