[Sca-cooks] Summer foods...including Gumbo recipe

[Pat Griffin]

Gumbo is incomplete without okra. 

GUMBO

Roux
1 cup plain flour
1 cup bacon drippings
cook over a medium fire in a large cast iron sauce pan, stirring frequently
until nut brown
(takes 45 minutes to an hour and a half, depending on the humidity of the
day)

Gumbo
1 head celery
4 large onions
4 large green peppers
all finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, crushed
stir into roux and cook until celery is tender and onion is translucent
2 cups boiled okra
stir into vegetable mix, and cook until hot 
add 
2 quarts fresh field ripened tomatoes,
peeled and quartered and seeded
(or 2 quarts whole canned tomatoes)
2 quarts Spicy V8 juice
1 lb chopped cooked ham
1 lb chopped cooked chicken
1 lb shrimp
1 lb crabmeat
salt and pepper to taste
allow to simmer until thick 
serve with Tabasco, filet powder, rice, and bread
(filet powder can be found in the "Cajun" section of the specialty food
department of most large groceries)

serves 16-20 hungry people, or 8 men-at-arms

Enjoy!

Lady Anne du Bosc
Known as Mordonna The Cook
mka Pat Griffin
-----Original Message-----
Maire inquired:

Okay, so maybe it's not a weird food for some of you, but it's pretty
uncommon around here...
What am I talking about? Why, okra, of course! 
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how else would a person cook it?