Down East Fish Chowder

Submitted by mollypaul

"Take a taste of this chowder, close your eyes and you will smell the shore of Maine even if you are in America's Heartland. If using dried salt codfish, you'll need to soak it overnight in several changes of water. From the New England chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1⁄4 lb salt pork, cut into small pieces
• 2 onions, peeled and sliced
• 3 cups potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
• 4 cups water, boiling
• 3 lbs cod (either salt or fresh) or 3 lbs haddock, cut into bite-sized pieces
• 1 3⁄4 cups evaporated milk
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 1⁄8 teaspoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon parsley, minced
• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon bacon fat
• 1 tablespoon flour
• pilot cracker

directions

1. Fry salt pork slowly in soup kettle.
2. Add sliced onions and cook for five minutes.
3. Add potatoes boiling water and fish; simmer slowly until potatoes are tender.
4. Add evaporated milk, salt, pepper and parsley.
5. Melt butter or bacon fat in a small frying pan.
6. Add flour and blend thoroughly; add gradually to chowder, stirring until slightly thickened.
7. Cook an additional five minutes.
8. Pour over pilot crackers and serve.