gumbo
(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
Ingredients:
2 quarts ripe tomatoes
2 quarts young pods of ochra
4 oz. butter
salt and pepper
serve with crackers, toasts, or light bread
Instructions:
Peel two quarts of ripe tomatoes, mix with them two quarts of young pods of ochra, and chop them small; put them into a stew pan, without any water; add four ounces of butter, and salt and pepper to your taste, and boil them gently and steadily for one hour; then pass it through a sieve into a tureen, and send to table with it, crackers, toasts, or light bread.
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