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Clam Chowder

From Louisville Cook Book (1890).

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From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. one-half pound of fat pork
  2. one-half peck clams
  3. twelve large white potatoes
  4. four large onions
  5. one pilot bread

Method

  1. Take one-half pound of fat pork, cut in strips, put into a pot to fry out, take it from the pot and cut into little bits for the chowder.
  2. Peel and slice twelve large white potatoes and four large onions, one pilot bread, one-half peck clams.
  3. Rinse the pot you fry the pork in, put a layer of potatoes, onions, bits of pilot bread and pork, so on until all is used up.
  4. Pour the clam liquor, after straining, over it, then add sufficient hot water to have the right saltiness.
  5. Let it boil one hour and a half, chop the clams, and throw in ten minutes before serv- -ing.
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Credit

From Louisville Cook Book (1890), character 4366 of the text, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/LouisvilleCookBook1890

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.