Okra Soup with Beef

Ingredients

• four pounds of soup-beef
• two dozen pods of okra
• a pint of it, cut from the cob
• half a pint of Lima beans

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the soup as directed for okra soup with crabs, substituting beef for veal and ham.

2. 2

   Remove beef before serving.

3. 3

   Optionally add fried oysters and corn and Lima beans half an hour before finishing cooking.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 106. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two dozen pods of okra in cold water, and slice them thin, throwing away the stems ; when the onions and meat are brown, add the okra to them, with four quarts of boiling water, a small fresh green or red pepper chopped fine, and a palatable seasoning of salt, and simmer the soup slowly for two hours, keeping the pot covered. Meanwhile pick all the meat from six boiled hard-shell crabs, and fry it brown, with a small onion sliced, and a tablespoonful of 1 84 PRACTICAL AMERICAN COOKERY. butter, and i^eel and slice one dozen medium-sized toma- toes. Four soft-shell crabs, fried in quarters, may be used in place of the hard-shell crabs : add the fried crab-meat and the sliced tomatoes to the soup at the end of two hours, and let the soup simmer slowly for two hours longer, keeping it closely covered to prevent evaporation. If, when the time for cooking the soup has expired, it has boiled away, add sufficient boiling water to increase it to four quarts ; remove the bones and any pieces of meat which have not boiled to shreds ; see if the seasoning is palatable, and serve the soup hot. OKRA SOUP WITH BEEF. Make this soup according to the directions given in the recipe for okra soup with crabs, substituting four pounds of soup-beef for the veal and ham, and leaving out the crabs. The beef must be taken out of the soup before serving it. Sometimes two dozen fried oysters are added to the soup just before sending it to the table. When green corn is plentiful, a pint of it, cut from the cob, and half a pint of ^ Lima bea

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