Gumbo Soup
1 fried chicken. 1 quart okra, cut up. 1 onion. 1bunch parsley. Few celery tops-fry all together. Put in one quart skinned tomatoes. 11/2 gallons water, boil to 1/2 gallon.
Teacup of wine after taking from the fire.--Mrs. R. A. Gumbo Soup.
Fry two fowls, old or young, with parsley, pepper, salt, onion, lard or bacon. Put it in the pot with water sufficient for the soup. One quart sliced okra, scrap of ham or fried sausage to boil with it.
Sassafras Gumbo is made in the same way, except after the fowl has boiled until the flesh has left the bone, just before taking off the fire, stir in one tablespoonful sassafras flour. Oysters are a great improvement to sassafras gumbo. Gather the sassafras leaves green, and dry in the shade, as sage; when thoroughly dry, rub through a sieve and bottle and cork tightly. It is nice in beef soup instead of okra.--Mrs. T.