Clam Soup

Ingredients

• Cut salt pork into very small squares
• two small onions
• two quarts of water
• one quart of raw potatoes
• one quart of clams
• one tablespoonful of flour
• one pint of milk
• Add butter to taste
• Add pepper to taste
• Add salt to taste

Method

1. 1

   Fry the salt pork until light brown, add finely cut onions and cook for ten minutes.

2. 2

   Add water and sliced potatoes, let it boil, then add clams.

3. 3

   Mix flour with water, add milk, pour into the soup, and boil for about five minutes.

4. 4

   Season with butter, pepper, and salt.

5. 5

   Worcestershire sauce may be added if desired.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 513. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

and pepper to taste. It is a good and economical plan to put the roast beef bones and ends of beefsteak into your soup kettle for stock. Then you can use it for tomato or cabbage soup and save all the waste. BEAN SOUP. Put the beans into a kettle, pour on enough water to cover, and when they commence to boil stir in a small piece of soda and let boil up once ; pour off the water, put on Iresh with a small piece of pork, and let them cook until well done, then dip out the beans and press them through a 622 SOUPS. colander into the water in which they were boiled ; tie up some thyme in a little bag, put in the pot to simmer a few minutes ; boil hard a few eggs, quarter and put eggs into the soup, and a sliced lemon, a little butter, and season with salt and pepper. A piece of fresh raw beef added with the seasoning is a great improvement ; let it remain in until well done through, but do not serve it in the soup ; or rich milk and but- ter may be substituted for the beef. CLAM SOUP. Cut salt pork into very small squares and fry light brown ; add one large or two small onions cut very fine, and cook about ten minutes ; add two quarts of water and one quart of raw potatoes sliced ; let it boil, then add one quart of clams. Mix one tablespoonful of flour and water, add to it one pint of milk, pour into the soup and let it boil about five minutes. Add butter, pepper and salt to taste

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