Potato Chowder
For lunch a potato chowder makes a hearty dish. Pare and cut into dice 6 large potatoes; chop fine I onion; put 1/4 of a pound of fat ham or salt pork through the food chopper. Cook the meat and onion slowly together in a saucepan until the latter begins to color. Add the potatoes, 1/2 teaspoonful of salt and 14 of a teaspoonful of white pepper and mix, then add i pint of boiling water and simmer gently until the potatoes are almost done. In the meantime make a sauce with I tablespoonful of butter, I heaping tablespoonful of flour and I pint of milk. Pour this into the first saucepan, add more salt and I2 pepper if necessary and simmer for five minutes longer. A moment before taking from the fire stir in I heaping tablespoonful of finely chopped parsley.