New England Chowder

Recipe Ingredients

• 0.25 lb Salt pork, diced
• 6.00 To 7 potatoes
• 1.00 tb Flour
• Salt and pepper
• 2.00 md Onions, sliced
• 4.00 To 6 cups milk, scalded
• 2.00 tb Melted butter or butter
• -substitute

Recipe Directions

• Fry salt pork until brown.


• Add onions, and the potatoes which have been pared, sliced thinly, and slices quartered.


• Season to taste.


• Cover with boiling water.


• Simmer until vegetables are tender.


• Add the distinctive ingredient.


• Add milk.


• Heat to boiling.


• Add the flour which has been blended with the butter.


• Cook 5 minutes.


• Serve with hot crisp crackers.


• The distinctive ingredient may be baked fish; small clams, fresh or canned or coarsely chopped large ones; or corn, diced tomato, and parsnips.


• The vegetables should be cooked until tender before the milk is added.


• Salt fish, soaked, cooked and flaked, or shredded canned salmon, may be substituted for fresh fish.


• 8 servings.


• Florence Taft Eaton, Concord, MA.

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