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Gumbo or Okra Soup

Ingredients

• 1 slice of bacon or fat ham
• 1 large onion
• 2 quarts fresh tomatoes
• 1 quart okra
• parsley
• 3 quarts of hot broth of any kind
• salt
• pepper

Instructions

Fry out the fat of a slice of bacon or fat ham, drain it off, and in it fry the slices of a large onion brown; scald, peel and cut up fresh tomatoes, when in season (use canned tomatoes otherwise), and cut thin the okra; put them, together with a little chopped parsley, in a stew-kettle with hot broth; cook slowly for three hours, season with salt and pepper. Serve hot.

In chicken broth the same quantity of okra pods, used for thickening instead of tomatoes, forms a chicken gumbo soup.

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Source

The White House Cookbook (1887).

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