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Okra Soup (Take two chickens three strips)

Take two chickens, three strips of sweet bacon, or a quarter of a pound of ham, one quart of tomatoes, four pints of okra and two onions. Fry the chicken, bacon and onions in a skillet. When done, pour on water and rinse into the soup-kettle, with plenty of water; put in the tomatoes. Cook the okra in a sauce-pan. When the meat has cooked so it may be pulled from the bone, pour through a colander, add the bacon or ham, and the tomatoes from the colander; put back the soup again to boil, pull the chicken from the bone, add the okra and let it cook until thick enough. If the chicken is chopped fine before being put in, and the whole stewed down pretty thick and ladled upon rice, boiled just so the grains are separate and distinct, it makes an excellent gumbo, which is still better if a little sweet cream is added to the boiling rice, and the soup seasoned with cayenne pepper, black pepper and salt. But it is generally made by adding the rice and cream to the soup.