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HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. 173

Gumbo Soup.
Take two pounds fresh beef, put this in a dinner-pot,
with two gallons of water ; after boiling two hours throw
in a quarter of a peck of okra, cut into small slices, and
about a quart of ripe tomatoes, peeled and cut up, slice
four or five large onions, fry them brown, and dust in
while they are frying from your drede-box several
spoonsful of flour, add these with pepper, salt, and parsley,
or other herbs to your taste, about an hour before
the soup is finished ; it will require six hours moderate
boiling.

Another Way.
Cut up a large fat chicken, boil it in two gallons of
water, adding at the time you put in the chicken the
same quantity of okra, two large onions cut fine, season
with pepper, salt, thyme and parsley, and when nearly
done, drop in dumplings made of one egg, half a pint of
rich milk, and flour sufficient to make them so that they
will drop from a spoon ; this soup requires from four to
five hours boiling.

crabapple jelly 9-1887
Cover the fruit with water.
Boil until soft. Let it drip[underlined].
3/4 lb sugar to a pint of juice.

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