Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:42:12 -0500

From: "Dennis R. Preston" preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PILOT.MSU.EDU

Subject: Re: Gumbo file'



You are right on. Do not add file to boiling gumbo.

Dennis



I believe I read in a cookbook somewhere that file powder is never added

to gumbo while it is boiling nor is the gumbo returned to the boil after

the file has been added, or else it will become "stringy". Not being

much of a gumbo maker myself, is this in fact true?

Allen







Dennis R. Preston

Department of Linguistics and Languages

Michigan State University

preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]pilot.msu.edu