Okra Gumbo

Ingredients

• Take a chicken
• a slice of good ham
• a large silver onion
• a large spoonful of good butter
• salt
• red and black pepper

Method

1. 1

   Cut chicken into pieces, dust with flour, fry in butter with ham until light brown.

2. 2

   Add okra, fry briefly, then add warm water to make two quarts of soup.

3. 3

   Boil until a few minutes before dinner, thicken with browned flour, and season.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Jane Hamilton's recipes (1909) by Charlotte Mason Poindexter, page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OKRA GUMBO. Take a chicken, cut it into pieces, dust them with flour, put a large spoonful of good butter in a frying pan with a slice of good ham, put in the chicken and let it fry to a light brown. Add the okra and let it fry a short time (the okra is cut in slices a quarter of an inch thick), then put in enough warm water to make two quarts of soup, a large silver onion chopped fine and fried. Let it boil until a few minutes before dinner, then thicken with browned flour and season with salt and red and black pepper

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