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For coffee was used burnt rye, okra, corn, bran, chickory and sweet potato peelings. For tea, raspberry leaves, corn fodder and sassafras root. There was not enough bacon to be had to keep the soldiers alive. Sorghum was used for sugar. The women and girls helped in every possible manner.
Pictures of the President and of one of the happy victims of Somebody's Pleasant Pain-Killer were tacked upon the walls beside long strings of dried red peppers and of okra. A gourd, cut into the shape of a cup, hung upon a nail by its crooked neck. The bed was covered neatly with a blue-and-white homespun coverlet, and a kettle steamed upon the fire at the opposite end of the room.
The pilot will land you at Okra Point. You can hire a rig there to take you to the railroad." "But why?" demanded David indignantly. "Why was I kidnapped? What had I done? Who were those men who " From the pilot-house there was a sharp jangle of bells to the engine-room, and the speed of the tug slackened. "Come on," commanded the young man briskly. "The pilot's going ashore.
Ten minutes before serving, pour into the boiling soup two dozen fine oysters, with half a pint of their liquor; let it come to a good boil and serve with well-boiled rice. La Cuisine Creole. From MISS FLORIDA CUNINGHAM, of South Carolina, Lady Manager. Two quarts of okra out very fine in three quarts of water, in which put a large shank of beef, and boil one hour.
I'm glad to have every healthy assurance of being in the world when Sam comes to the harvesting of his friendly crops. It will be a great occasion. If Edith's five rows of okra do not net or gross I forget which is the right term for it I know she will wilt away, and I dread Sue if her fifty tomato-plants go down before the humble cutworm. Sue won't be humble.
The cook-shops show their wares and their processes, and send up an appetising smell of lamb kibâbs and fried fish and stuffed cucumbers and stewed beans and okra, and many other dainties preparing on diminutive charcoal grills.
Boil slowly, with all kinds of vegetables, provided your patient is allowed to have them. Strain, add the beaten yolk of an egg, salt to taste. Cut up any bones or meat of cold turkey, and cook like soup made of left-over chicken and chicken bones. Take one quart of ripe tomatoes, stew with one quart of okra, cut into small rings.
Her faded bonnet fell back between her shoulders, hanging on by the strings, and her dropped basket, with its "few lill' bécassines-de-mer" dangling from the handle, rolled out its okra and soup-joint upon the floor. "Ma piti! kiss! kiss! kiss!" "But is it good news you have, or bad?" cried the girl, a fourth or fifth time. "Dieu sait, ma cère; mo pas conné!" God knows, my darling; I cannot tell!
He had particularly enjoined upon us, when starting out, to procure, at all hazards, some okra, which we failed to get, and, in naming aloud the various items, as each appeared on the surface of the water, he wound up his soliloquy with, "And now, Lord, for a little okra!" In September the army moved again toward Manassas, about seventy miles distant.
Rebecca had learned of the war long before it ended and knew its import. She had confided this information to other slaves who could read and write. She read the small newspaper that her master received at irregular intervals. Certain commodities were very scarce Rebecca remembers drinking coffee made of okra seed, that had been dried and parched.
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