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



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Dennis R. Preston

Department of Linguistics and Languages

Michigan State University

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