Southern Chicken Gumbo

Ingredients

• 1 large fowl jointed
• ½ lb. fat salt pork
• cover well with water
• 1 lb. okra sliced fine
• 6 large tomatoes skinned
• 1 small onion
• 1 green Chile pepper
• 3 or 4 birdseye peppers
• and salt

Method

1. 1

   Boil the chicken and fat salt pork until thoroughly cooked.

2. 2

   Remove bones and cut chicken into small squares.

3. 3

   Return to the broth, add okra, tomatoes, onion, peppers, and salt.

4. 4

   Boil slowly for 3 hours, taking care not to burn.

5. 5

   Serve with boiled rice.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from San Rafael cook book, 1906 (1906) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SOUTHERN CHICKEN GUMiBO— Mrs. Thos. Wintringham. 1 large fowl jointed, % lb. fat salt pork; cover well with water and" bcil until thoroughly cooked. Remove bones and cut in small squares, Return to the broth of which there should be at least 2 qts. Add tO' this: 1 lb. okra sliced fine, G large tomatoes skinned, 1 small onion, 1 gTeen Chile pepper, 3 or 4 birdseye peppers, and salt

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