Hot Weather Dishes

Philadelphia, 1888: what to eat when it is too hot to cook, from the cooking-school teacher who taught the city.

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Clam Fritters

I teaspoonful of salt 2 dashes of black pepper 2 cupfuls of flour 1½ teaspoonful of baking powder them with your fingers to Drain the clams and strip remove any pieces of shell that may have been left on them. Chop them fine. Beat the eggs all together until very light, add to them the milk, then the flour, pepper and salt, and beat until perfectly smooth; add the clams (free from all liquor), and the baking powder; mix well, and drop by spoonfuls in smoking hot oil or fat; when browned on one side, turn and brown on the other. When done, take out with a skimmer, as it makes them very heavy to pierce them with a fork.

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