Chowder

Ingredients

• Take 4 or 5 slices of salt pork,
• fry 4 or 5 good-sized onions sliced thin.
• Have ready 12 potatoes pared and sliced,
• and also 4 or 5 cakes of hard bread.

Method

1. 1

   Fry the salt pork in a spider until brown, then remove and cut into pieces.

2. 2

   In the pork fat, fry the onions.

3. 3

   Soak the hard bread in cold water.

4. 4

   In a soup kettle, layer pork, onions, potatoes, and clams or fish, seasoning with pepper and salt.

5. 5

   Top with soaked hard bread.

6. 6

   Cover with water and boil for 20 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 91. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOWDER. Take 4 or 5 slices of salt pork, fry in the spider a delicate brown, and remove and cut in pieces. Then in the pork fat fry 4 or 5 good-sized onions sliced thin. Have ready 12 potatoes pared and sliced, and also 4 or 5 cakes of hard bread.

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