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Gumbo Soup

Ingredients

• 2 pounds fresh beef
• 2 gallons of water
• 1/4 peck of ocra
• about 1 quart of ripe tomatoes
• 4 or 5 large onions
• flour
• pepper
• salt
• parsley or other herbs, to your taste

Instructions

Take the beef; put this in a dinner-pot, with the water; after boiling two hours, throw in the ocra, cut into small slices, and the tomatoes, peeled and cut up; slice the onions; fry them brown, and dust in while they are frying from your dredge box, several spoonsful of flour; add these, with pepper, salt and parsley, or other herbs, to your taste, about an hour before the soup is finished; it will require six hours moderate boiling.

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Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers.