A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; also, the okra pods themselves.
We raises lots of okra and dey say it gwine be parch and grind to make coffee for white folks.
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Boil the okra, cut in slices, make a batter as for batter cakes, dip the okra in and fry in plenty of hot lard.
Parboil one-half cup of okra cut in pieces one inch long.
Then add three peeled tomatoes cut in small dices, one spoonful of Worcestershire sauce, the meat of two whole crabs, and a can of okra; or one pound of fresh okra cut in pieces one inch long.
Let boil slowly for one-half hour, then add one pound of okra cut in pieces three-quarters of an inch in length, and cook until okra is soft.
Braise some sweetbreads, place on a platter, and garnish with okra and tomatoes saute and green peppers cut like matches and sauteed in butter.
My heart warmed to him, and we discussed corn and melons and asparagus and peas and beans and squashes and cucumbers and chard and okra and such like for more than an hour.
He said dat sometimes corn and okra seeds was parched right brown and ground up to be used for coffee, but it warn't nigh as good as sho 'nough coffee.
Parched corn and okra seed was ground together for coffee, and us had to git up dirt under old smokehouses and bile it down for salt.
Randy, would you mind picking a few pods of okra for the soup?
Randy picked the okra and carried it to the kitchen, and returning to the Schoolhouse found the Major opening his morning mail.
For the life of me I couldn't make up my mind what to say about them, so I sent the Byrd home by Tolly, who was going to take Edith out to see how her okra was progressing, and stayed in the safe shelter of my home.
Another way is to cook the grillades without garlic, and add to them along with the tomatoes half a pint of tender okra well washed and sliced.
Follow them in ten minutes with a pint of tender okra sliced--next add a little later the pulp from a dozen ears of green corn, slit lengthwise and scraped.
Fry the corn, tomatoes and okra brown in the chicken drippings first, then add to the water and chicken with two tablespoons rice, pepper and teaspoon salt.
Put in a kettle with two quarts boiling water, three large ears of corn cut from cob, six tomatoes sliced, twenty-four pods of okra cut up.
Corn may be used in place of okra if the latter is disliked.
Peel and cut small 1 pint of young tender okra pods, and add.
OKRA is a fruit vegetable consisting of a green pod that is several inches long, pointed at one end, and filled with seeds.
The simplest way in which to prepare okra is to stew it.
The preliminary preparation of okra is the same as that of most other vegetables; that is, the pods should be washed, the stems removed, and the cleaned pods then cooked in sufficient boiling salted water to cover them well.
Okra is low in food value, being only slightly higher than cabbage and most of the greens; nevertheless, it is liked by many persons.
Although okra originated in Africa, it is for the most part grown in the southern section of the United States.
When seasoned well with salt, pepper, and butter, stewed okrafinds much favor with those who care for this vegetable.
Select the required number of okra pods and put them on to cook in enough boiling salted water to cover them well.
Heat the okra and tomatoes together in a saucepan and add the salt, pepper, and ham or bacon fat.
We had to buy the okra and the red peppers, but I figured everything just as if I had to buy it from the market; and on this basis, the cost of our soup would have been only seven and a half cents a can.
Then add mixed with pint of } { okra mixed with water.
Next add three ounces powdered okra mixed with one pint water.
Mix okra and rice and fill cans or jars half full.
Stir all over the fire until the okra is thoroughly wilted then remove the larger bones and let cook three quarters of an hour before serving.
Slice and fry brown two large onions and add two heaping quarts of sliced okra and one cut up pod of red pepper.
In a soup kettle place five quarts of water and your chicken, let it boil hard for two hours, cut up twenty-four okra pods, add them to the soup, and boil the whole another hour.
Dried okra can be used, but must be soaked over night.
In chicken broth the same quantity of okra pods, used for thickening instead of tomatoes, forms a chicken gumbo soup.
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