Cookbook:Daniel Webster's Chowder

Daniel Webster's Chowder
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From the 1881 Household Cyclopedia

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp chopped onion
• Fatty pork
• 1 quart mashed potatoes
• 1 ½ pounds sea biscuit, broken
• 1 tsp thyme
• 1 tsp summer savory
• ½ bottle mushroom catsup
• 1 bottle port or claret
• ¼ nutmeg pod, grated
• A few cloves
• Mace
• Allspice
• 6 pounds sea bass or cod, cut into slices
• 25 oysters
• Black pepper
• A few slices lemon

Procedure

1. Fry the onion with the fatty pork. Transfer to a large pot.
2. Add all remaining ingredients to pot.
3. Add enough water to cover everything by 1 inch.
4. Bring to a boil. Simmer for 1 hour, stirring gently every so often.
5. Serve.