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Gumbo File




Source of Recipe


French Acadian


Recipe Introduction


Serves 8.


List of Ingredients




1 4-pound stewing hen
2 qt water
1/2 pound ham cubed
2 onions,chopped
1 pint oysters
salt
pepper
cayenne
1/2 chili pepper chopped fine
2 T gumbo file
2 C cooked rice

Recipe



Cut chicken in serving pieces and simmer in salted water until tender. Remove bones and cut into cubes. Fry ham. Brown onions in ham fat. Combine chicken, ham, onions and oyster liquor, cover with boiling chicken stock. Add salt, pepper, cayenne and chili pepper. Simmer 2 hours. About 10 minutes before serving, add oysters, and just before serving moisten file with with a little of the soup and invert into soup. Do not cook after adding file. Place a mound of rice in each soup plate and serve the gumbo over it.