Coffee/Tea Okra Coffee (Substitute)

okra coffee
(from the Georgia Journal and Messenger of Macon, Georgia, October 16, 1861)

Ingredients:

dry okra seeds​

Instructions:

(One of three "Recipes for the Times.")​

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I would also add something of my experience in domestic coffee, being desirous of contributing my little mite to aid the people of the South in the perilous times. I wish to introduce the OKRA coffee, as being the best substitute yet offered. Take the dry seed, parch, grind, and make it as you would any other, and you will have an excellent coffee. It is much like our Rio coffee in smell and taste. Let everybody try it, and prove it, and procure seed, and cultivate this great plant for our own use. I believe it to be a much more healthy coffee than the kinds we have accustomed ourselves to using....​

ALABAMA​