South carolina shrimp gumbo
10 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | Bacon drippings |
| ½ | cup | All-purpose flour |
| Salt | ||
| 1 | medium | Onion; chopped |
| 2 | Stalks celery; chopped | |
| 1 | Green pepper; chopped | |
| 1 | cup | Cooked tomatoes |
| 1 | pounds | Country sausage |
| 3 | pints | Water |
| 1½ | pounds | Shrimp |
| Hot cooked rice | ||
Directions
Heat bacon drippings in large saucepan. Add ½ cup flour, or enough to blend with drippings. Add salt. Stir until as brown as possible without burning. Add onion, celery, and pepper, and stir until wilted. Add tomatoes and cook for a minute or two, stirring constantly. Add sausage, cut into circles, and the water. Cook all together until well done; then add shrinp.
Cook shrimp only a short time (about 7 minutes), or it will break into pieces. Serve over hot rice. Yield: 10 servings.
From <The Progressive Farmer's Southern Country Cookbook>, by the editors of the 'Progressive Farmer Magazine'. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .