Clam Chowder I

Ingredients

• one hundred clams
• a quart of water
• six slices of salt pork
• four onions
• six potatoes
• two green peppers
• a quart of milk
• half a cup of bread crumbs
• four ounces of butter

Method

1. 1

   Boil clams in water until shells open, then remove clams and save the water.

2. 2

   Fry salt pork until crisp, then fry onions in the fat.

3. 3

   Add clam water and fried pork, then add potatoes and green peppers.

4. 4

   Boil for fifteen minutes, add clams and sea biscuits, and boil for another fifteen minutes.

5. 5

   Stir in milk and butter mixed with bread crumbs as it heats.

6. 6

   Serve when boiling.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Joe Tilden's recipes for epicures (1907) by Joe Tilden, page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a quart of milk and heat it to the boiling point. Then stir into it two ounces of flour rubbed into two ounces of butter. When it thickens a little, pour it over the chowder and serve. 11 JOE TILDEN'S RECIPES FOR EPICURES The recipe will take about four pounds of fish, half a pound of pork, six onions, six po- tatoes, four sea biscuits, two ounces each of but- ter and flour and a quart of milk. A* A* Clam Chowder I Have one hundred clams still in the shell. Boil them in a quart of water until the shells open. Take the clams out of the kettle, saving the water in which they were boiled. Remove them from the shells, discarding all but the soft part. Take six slices of salt pork and cut into dice. Fry until crisp and a light brown. Re- move from the saucepan and in the fat fry four onions sliced. Then add the water strained from the clams and the fried pork. To this add six potatoes cut in small pieces and two green peppers chopped or finely sliced. Boil the mix- ture fifteen minutes before putting in the clams and four sea biscuits, broken into pieces. Then boil for fifteen minutes longer and add a quart 12 SOUPS AND CHOWDERS of milk. Have half a cup of bread crumbs rubbed into four ounces of butter

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