Oyster Gombo with Filee

Ingredients

• Whole chicken
• Fifty Oyster
• Half a pound ham
• Two onions
• Lard
• Flour
• Sassafras leaves
• Teaspoon of flour
• Gravy

Directions

1. Cut up onion and fry in lard
2. Prepare gravy with flour
3. Cut up chicken and ham and mix in with onion to fry
4. Cook till brown
5. Put contents in a pint of boiling water until chicken is in pieces almost
6. After half an hour, put oysters in the boiling water with other contents
7. Stir in sassafras leaves and continue until desired thickness
8. Remove from fire
9. Serve.

Source —La Cuisine Creole

Prepared by Travis Kelly
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2022