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Fish Chowder, Tokio

Lift up four filets from a small, well-cleaned, fresh flounder. Skin the filets, cut the meat into pieces one-half-inch square and keep on a plate. Place all the bones and skin in a saucepan with five pints water and boil for twenty minutes; strain the broth into a basin, wipe the pan and place it on the fire with one tablespoon butter. Cut in half and finely slice one carrot, one turnip, one onion and two leeks, add to the pan, then gently brown for ten minutes, occasionally stirring meanwhile. Mix in two tablespoons flour, add the rind of half a lemon chopped very fine, then pour in the fish broth. Season with a tablespoon salt, half teaspoon pepper and one heavy teaspoon curry powder; mix well and boil for thirty minutes. Add one good-sized, peeled, raw potato cut into small dice pieces, two tablespoons raw rice and one dry chili pepper cut in small pieces; then boil for twenty minutes more. Add the cut fish and two teaspoonfuls of finely shredded, dried, salt codfish, lightly mix, then let boil for twenty minutes more. Pour into a soup tureen and serve.