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Southern Chicken Gumbo

Flour and fry a chicken brown after the usual manner (though it need not be a young chicken). Fry two slices of breakfast bacon or salt pork, into the grease of which stir a tablespoonful of sifted flour; have a quart of okra and two small onions cut fine; fry this in the bacon grease until the okra begins to "rope" (do not let scorch). Then turn all-chicken, gravy, okra, onion, and bacon-into porcelain lined souppot, add two quarts of hot water, cook slowly two hours; stir well from the bottom occasionally. A green pepper added gives a nice flavor. Serve with dry boiled rice. It is a dinner in itself. Okra is strictly a southern vegetable, but bears transportation and may be found in northern vegetable markets.