1881 - What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking

Oyster Gumbo Soup

DDV CULINARY

Take an old chicken, cut into small pieces, salt and black pepper.
Dip it well in flour, and put it on to fry, over a slow fire, till brown; don't let it burn.
Cut half of a small onion very fine and sprinkle on chicken while frying.
Then place chicken in soup pot, add two quarts water and let it boil to three pints.
Have one quart of fresh oysters with all the liquor that belongs to them,
and before dishing up soup, add oysters and let come to a boil the second time,
then stir into soup one tablespoonful of gumbo quickly.
Dish up and send to table.
Have parsley chopped very fine and put in tureen on dishing up soup.
Have dry boiled rice to go to table with gumbo in separate dish.
Serve one tablespoonful of rice to a plate of gumbo.