Homemade Clam Soup

Ingredients

• three dozen Little Neck clams
• one pint of cold water
• one-half pint of boiling cream
• two ounces of butter
• one cup of broken saltine crackers
• a little chopped parsley

Method

1. 1

   Boil clams with water, skim, add cream and butter, then crackers, and season with salt, pepper, and parsley.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Hotel St. Francis cook book (1919) by Hirtzler, Victor., page 211. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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