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Clam Chowder

Chop very fine two medium white onions, two branches soup celery, two leeks, one ounce lean salt pork. Heat up in a saucepan one tablespoon butter; add all the above ingredients and stir well with a wooden spoon while gently cooking for ten minutes. Pour in two and a half quarts hot water or broth. Boil for sixteen minutes. Peel and cut into small, dice-shaped pieces three good-sized, sound raw potatoes; wash and drain well, then add to the soup. Boil for six minutes. Chop very finely and add to the soup eight large, fresh clams, saving the liquor. Cut into small pieces three good-sized peeled red tomatoes and add to the soup; also two tablespoons Worcestershire sauce, six drops tabasco sauce, two saltspoons thyme, one teaspoon salt, a saltspoon pepper; pour in the liquor of the clams; mix well with a wooden spoon. Briskly boil for thirty minutes. Add six crushed soda crackers and a teaspoon finely chopped parsley. Mix lightly. Boil for ten minutes more. Pour into a soup tureen and send to the table.