creole beef gumbo

Recipe in Chronicling America
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Ingredients

  • 1 cup celery with its leaves, cut
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 1/2 cups chopped tomato
  • 8 cups of water
  • 1 1/4 cup rice
  • 1 1/2 cups onion, chopped fine
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 4 teaspoons salt
  • 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce

Directions

  1. Sauté the celery in butter for 3 minutes.
  2. Add the tomato and water.
  3. Bring to a boil, add the onion, sugar, salt and Worcestershire sauce.
  4. Bring to a boil for 30 minutes.
  5. Add the rice and boil for 30 more minutes, always with the saucepan covered.
  6. Time: 1 hour 15 minutes.
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