What's on the Menu?!: Frog Gumbo

Smiley's Cookbook (1895) 

Gumbo with Frogs

The Table (1889)
Alessandro Filippini

½ ounce butter

1 chopped onion

1 ounce raw ham

½ a green pepper

½ ts salt

1 tsp pepper

1 quart white broth or consommé

1 tbs raw rice

6 sliced gumbos

1 sliced tomato

¼ lb raw frogs

Brown in half an ounce of butter, in a saucepan, one chopped onion with about one ounce of raw ham cut into dice shape, half a green pepper cut in small dice, and half a tablespoonful of salt and a teaspoonful of pepper. Moisten with one quart of white broth or consommé, add one tablespoonful of raw rice, six sliced gumbos, and one sliced tomato. Let all cook thoroughly for about twenty minutes; and five minutes before serving add a quarter of a pound of raw frogs cut up into small pieces.

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