Recreated Okra Soup

[donna]

Here is a Shaker recipe for Okra Soup.

1/4 lb salt pork, cut fine
2 cups okra, sliced fine
1 cup green pepper, diced
1 large ripe tomato
4 cups boiling water
1 teaspoon salt
1teaspoon dark brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon paprika

Fry out the cut salt pork in soup pot. Simmer vegetables in hot fat. Add water and seasoning until vegetables are tender (about 30 minutes). Cooked chicken cut in neat cubes enhances this dish considerably. Serves 4.

 

[CSA Today]

Here is a Shaker recipe for Okra Soup.

1/4 lb salt pork, cut fine
2 cups okra, sliced fine
1 cup green pepper, diced
1 large ripe tomato
4 cups boiling water
1 teaspoon salt
1teaspoon dark brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon paprika

Fry out the cut salt pork in soup pot. Simmer vegetables in hot fat. Add water and seasoning until vegetables are tender (about 30 minutes). Cooked chicken cut in neat cubes enhances this dish considerably. Serves 4.

My favorite Okra soup is a mixture of Okra, tomatoes and sweet corn all grown in the garden. One of my grandmothers canned untold number jars of soup this way, we still put up this soup with garden fresh vegetables but put it in freezer bags instead of jars on a shelf, not as good as grandma's but still good.

"No country ever had truer sons, No people-bolder defenders, No principle – purer victims"
Inscribed on the Confederate Monument in front of the Marlboro County Court House in Bennettsville, South Carolina

 

[diane]

My favorite Okra soup is a mixture of Okra, tomatoes and sweet corn all grown in the garden. One of my grandmothers canned untold number jars of soup this way, we still put up this soup with garden fresh vegetables but put it in freezer bags instead of jars on a shelf, not as good as grandma's but still good.

"No country ever had truer sons, No people-bolder defenders, No principle – purer victims"
Inscribed on the Confederate Monument in front of the Marlboro County Court House in Bennettsville, South Carolina

Ah, you can never match granny's! I've tried for years to make her vegetable beef soup - gotten close, but never won the cigar! (Don't think they put out good marrow bones anymore...)

 

[donna]

Both my grandmothers were superb cooks. I can never match them and never expect to. I do think many ingredients were better back then.

 

[Caswell Ranger]

Do you eat the salt pork or remove it?

 

[diane]

Do you eat the salt pork or remove it?

You can eat it if you want to, but I generally leave it in the pot and serve around it.

 

[Roland]

Will try this.. Thanks and Merry Christmas!

 

[Union_Buff]

Interesting recipe Donna

Thanks for posting it!

 

[Blessmag]

And I thought all okra had to be fried and consumed at a buffet!

 

[Greg Taylor]

Might try the soup, but it's not easy procuring okra in Los Angeles!

 

[diane]

Might try the soup, but it's not easy procuring okra in Los Angeles!

Whatever you do, don't use canned or frozen! Wait til you can find fresh - and that's a challenge in California! But it's soooo different you'll be glad of making the effort.

 

[wayne jackson]

okra soup not for me,fried maybe

 

[diane]

That's the way I like it best. I put a little cayenne pepper in, which zips it up nicely but isn't too hot! I suppose I'll pay for it down the road - kind of a short road about now - but I do like my fried stuff!

 

[wayne jackson]

something is going to get us anyway,eat your fried okra,drink your jack daniels,dip your snuff and go happy

 

[yankee belle]

I have most of my mom's and both grandmothers' best recipes pretty close but there are a few I just can't get, either.

 

[Littlestown]

 

[donna]

A good recipe for Okra Soup.

 

[Pollaco]

One of the few things still growing in my garden in this South Texas heat. It can take it though.

 

[KianGaf]

Both my grandmothers were superb cooks. I can never match them and never expect to. I do think many ingredients were better back then.

I agree. Even when I was a kid I think food was better quality. Thankfully around here a artisan food movement is going the past few years with some excellent food available. The produce costs a bit more but I prefer a bit of quality over quantity.