Chowders
Fish Chowder
4 pounds fish; 6 medium-sized potatoes; 2 slices fat salt pork; 1 quart milk; 2 small onions; 2 teaspoonfuls salt; 1 saltspoonful white…
Clam Chowder
Rhode Island chowder has the potatoes omitted, and a quart of cider and pint of port are added. Some add salt pork and potatoes to this…
French Fisherman's Chowder
Put 1/4 of a cup of butter or good clarified dripping in a stewpan, and when melted add 3 ounces of sifted flour and stir until smooth and…
Soft-Clam Chowder
Chop a quart of soft clams, peel and slice 6 potatoes thin, tie up in a cheesecloth bag 6 whole allspice and 6 cloves. Put 1/4 of a pound…
Terrapin Soup
1 quart chicken or white-stock; 1 pint terrapin meat; 1 cup cream; 2 hard-boiled egg-yolks; 2 tablespoonfuls butter; 1 tablespoonful rice…
Turtle Soup
Make the red-legged turtle soup the same as terrapin. For green-turtle soup take; 3 pints clear white stock; 1 can green turtle; 1 onion; 2…
Mock Terrapin
Boil until tender 2 pounds of lean beef; let it cool in the liquor. Chop the meat rather fine; put into a saucepan with a cupful of milk…
Fish Soup
Boil salmon, halibut, or cod in salted water until it flakes easily. Drain, remove skin and bones, and rub through strainer. To 1 pound of…
Red-Snapper Soup
Bring a quart of white stock to a boil. Mince finely 2 cupfuls of cold cooked fish, which has been freed of skin and bones, and stir into…
Eel Soup
Clean and cut 2 pounds of eels into inch-lengths. Put some dripping in a saucepan and, when hissing hot, fry a sliced onion in it. After…
Crab Soup
Cut in small pieces 4 good-sized tomatoes that have been washed and wiped (or use half a can of tomatoes). Mash and rub them through a…
Shrimp Gumbo
Chop fine 1 red sweet chili and an onion, and cook slowly for half an hour in 4 tablespoonfuls olive oil. Add 1 pint okra (washed and…
Potato Chowder
5 medium-sized potatoes; 3 thin slices of bacon, 1 pint milk, 1 medium-sized onion; 2 teaspoonfuls Worcestershire sauce; 1 tablespoonful…
Corn Chowder
1 dozen well-filled ears sweet corn; 1 pint sliced and peeled tomatoes; 1 onion; 3 medium-sized potatoes; 1 slice fat salt pork; 1 pint…
Game Soup
Use 2 grouse or partridges, or, if neither can be had, use a pair of rabbits; half a pound of lean ham; 2 medium-sized onions; 1 pound of…