Fish Chowder (Rhode Island)

Ingredients

• five or six slices of fat pork
• four pounds of fresh cod or sea-bass
• a layer of chopped onions
• a little parsley
• summer savory
• pepper, either black or cayenne
• a tablespoonful of flour
• about the same quantity of butter

Method

1. 1

   Fry pork until crisp, then chop and return to pot.

2. 2

   Layer fish, onions, parsley, seasoning, and soaked crackers in pot.

3. 3

   Cover with water, stew gently for an hour, thicken gravy with flour and butter, and serve with lemon and pickles.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 7 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FISH CHOWDER. (Rhode Island.) Fry five or six slices of fat pork crisp in the bottom of the pot you are to make your chowder in; take them out and chop them into small pieces, put them back into the bottom of the pot with their own gravy. (This is much better than having the slices whole.) Cut four pounds of fresh cod or sea-bass into pieces two inches square, and lay enough of these on the pork to cover it. Follow with a layer of chopped onions, a little parsley, summer savory and pepper, either black or cayenne. Then a layer of split Boston, or butter, or whole cream crackers, which have been soaked in warm water until moistened through, but not ready to break. Above this put a layer of pork and repeat the order given above — onions, seasoning (not too much), crackers and pork, until your materials are exhausted. Let the topmost layer be buttered crackers well soaked. Pour in enough cold water to barely cover all. Cover the pot, stew gently for an hour, watching that the water does not sink too low. Should it leave the upper layer exposed, replenish cau- tiously from the boiling tea-kettle. When the chowder is thoroughly done, take out with a perforated skimmer and put into a tureen. ' Thicken the gravy with a tablespoonful of flour an d about the same quantity of butter

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