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Okra Soup

From The complete cook book, 1900

Serves 6

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • one pound of round steak
  • two generous tablespoonfuls of butter
  • one onion
  • one pint of okra
  • two quarts of boiling salted water
  • one quart of hot milk
  • season with white pepper

Method

  1. Fry steak and onion until brown.

  2. Add okra and boiling water, cook until tender.

  3. Add steak and onions, then thicken with butter and flour mixture, and hot milk.

  4. Bring to a boil and serve.

Nutrition per serving

167Calories
17 gProtein
5 gCarbs
12 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete cook book (1900) by Rees, Jennie Day Mrs., page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OKRA SOUP. Chop and fry until brown one pound of round steak, with two generous tablespoonfuls of butter and one onion. Into a soup kettle now put one pint of okra, cut in very thin slices, and add two quarts of boiling salted water. When tender add the steak and onions The Complete Cook Book. 23 and boil slowly two hours. Rub together one table- spoonful of butter and two tablespoonfuls of flour and add one quart of hot milk. Pour this into the soup kettle and season with white pepper

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