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Olde Recipe Okra Soup
 
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes
Cook Time: 300 Minutes
Ready In: 300 Minutes
Servings: 4
The following recipe was transcribed ver batim from Peterson's Magazine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April, 1859
Ingredients:
2 quarts fresh okra
slice of ham
1 gallon water
2 quarts skinned tomatoes
Directions:
1. Take a quarter peck of okras, slice them round, and put them on the fire, with a slice of ham, and a gallon of water; boil the whole about five hours.
2. Half an hour before serving the soup, add quarter of a peck of tomatoes, skinned.
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