Gumbo Soup

Ingredients

• one chicken
• five quarts of water
• one onion
• two dozen okra pods
• some rice
• a lump of lard the size of an egg
• salt
• pepper

Method

1. 1

   Cut up the chicken, wash, dry, and flour it thoroughly.

2. 2

   Season with salt and pepper.

3. 3

   Heat lard in a frying pan and fry the chicken until very brown.

4. 4

   Put the chicken in a soup kettle with water and onion, and let it boil for two hours.

5. 5

   Add okra and rice, boil for another hour, season to taste, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kirmess cook book (1907), page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GUMBO SOUP. Mrs, C, M, Gould, Bayside, L. I. Cut up one chicken, wash, dry and flour it thor- oughly, salt and pepper, heat a lump of lard the size of an egg in a frying pan, and fry chicken very brown. Put chicken in the soup kettle witii five quarts of water, add one onion cut up fine, and let it boil two hours. Add two dozen okra pods and some rice

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