Stewed Soft-Shell Crabs with Okras

Ingredients

• one-half ounce or so of butter
• a chopped onion
• an ounce or more of raw ham cut into dice
• half of a green pepper pod
• one-half tablespoonful of salt
• one teaspoonful of pepper
• about one quart of white broth or consommé
• a tablespoonful of uncooked rice
• six sliced okras
• also a sliced tomato
• the meat of three well-washed, minced, soft-shell crabs

Method

1. 1

   Brown onion and ham in butter, add pepper, salt, broth, rice, okras, and tomato.

2. 2

   Cook for twenty minutes, then add crab meat and cook for five more minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Stewed Soft-Shell Crabs with Okras. Brown in a saucepan with one-half ounce or so of butter a chopped onion, an ounce or more of raw ham cut into dice, half of a green pepper pod, also cut into dice, one-half tablespoonful of salt and one teaspoonful of pepper. Moisten with about one quart of white broth or consomm^, add a tablespoonful of uncooked rice, six sliced okras, also a sliced tomato. Allow all these to cook thoroughly for about twenty minutes, and five minutes before serving add the meat of three well-washed, minced, soft-shell crabs

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