1881 - What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking

Ochra Gumbo

DDV CULINARY

Get a beef shank, have it cracked and put to boil in one gallon of water.
Boil to half a gallon, then strain and put back on fire.
Cut ochra in small pieces and put in soup; don't put in any ends of ochra.
Season with salt and pepper while cooking.
Stir it occasionally and keep it from burning.
To be sent to table with dry boiled rice.
Never stir rice while boiling.
Season rice always with salt when it is first put on to cook,
and do not have too much water in rice while boiling.