Lowney's Cook Book / Illustrated in Colors

by Maria Willett Howard

Gumbo

• 1 fowl
  ½ cup salt pork fat
  1 sliced onion
  salt
  2 cups strained tomatoes
  12 okra pods sliced
  1 teaspoon sassafras powder
  cayenne

Dress the fowl and cut in pieces for serving. Pour pork fat into frying pan, when hot add onion, seasoned fowl, and cook until fowl is brown and tender; add remaining ingredients and cook one hour.