Oyster Gumbo

Oyster Gumbo

Ingredients:
1 pint oysters
1/2 can okra
4 cups Fish Stock
1/3 can tomatoes
1/4 cup butter

Directions:
Salt
1 tablespoon chopped
onion
Pepper
Clean, pick over, and parboil oysters; drain, and add oyster liquor to Fish Stock. Cook onion
five minutes in one−half the butter; add to stock. Then add okra, tomatoes heated and drained
from some of their liquor, oysters, and remaining butter. Season with salt and pepper.
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Fish Stock is the liquor obtained by covering the head, tail, skin, bones, and small quantity
of
flesh adhering to bones of fish, with cold water, bringing slowly to boiling−point, simmering
thirty
minutes, and straining.
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