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Gumbo Soup

Name: Gumbo Soup
Ingredients: 1 slice bacon; 1 large onion, sliced; 2 quarts fresh tomatoes, peeled and cut up; 1 quart okra, cut thin; 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley; 3 quarts hot broth; 1 scant tablespoonful salt; 1/2 teaspoonful pepper

A historic Canadian dish of bacon, onion, fresh tomatoes, okra and parsley. Adapted from Gumbo Soup, from The Canadian Family Cook Book (1914).

Adapted from Gumbo Soup, in The Canadian Family Cook Book (1914), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's The Canadian Kitchen collection and marked public domain. The method is condensed from the original and the quantities are restated in modern units; see the archive record at https://github.com/AdamBouhmad/open-recipe-archive/blob/main/collections/canadian-kitchen/recipes/gumbo-soup-2.md.

The dish

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Gumbo Soup

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Produce

1 largeonionChecked by You
2 quartsfresh tomatoes
1 quartokra
1 tspparsleyChecked by You

Meat & Poultry

1 slicebacon

Pantry / Durable

3 quartshot broth

Spices & Seasoning

1scant tablespoonful salt
½ tsppepperChecked by You

Cooking Instructions

Try out the fat of bacon and drain it off
Fry the slices of onion brown in the bacon fat
Put tomatoes, okra, and chopped parsley together in a stew kettle with hot broth
Let it cook slowly for three hours
Season with salt and pepper

Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · The Canadian Family Cook Book (1914; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)