{"id":4744,"slug":"clam-chowder-boston-style","title":"Clam chowder, Boston style","description":"From The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book (1919) by Victor Hirtzler.","ingredients_raw":["fifty clams, with their liquid","a medium-sized onion","four slices of salt pork","a piece of butter","two tablespoonfuls of flour","a half pint of rich soup stock","a half pint of cream","a couple of diced potatoes","a bit of thyme","a few hard crackers"],"ingredients_norm":["fifty clams with their liquid","sized onion","salt pork","butter","flour","rich soup stock","cream","couple of diced potato","bit of thyme","few hard cracker"],"steps":["Put fifty clams, with their liquid, into a saucepan and boil for three minutes.","Then set the clams aside, strain the broth and return to the fire.","Chop fine, a medium-sized onion, and cut into dice four slices of salt pork.","Put a piece of butter into a pan, and fry the pork and onion until light brown in color; stir in two tablespoonfuls of flour and cook thoroughly.","Add the clam juice, a half pint of rich soup stock, and the same amount of cream, a couple of diced potatoes, and a bit of thyme if the flavor is liked.","Cook for about ten minutes.","Chop the clams, and add last of all, as they do not require much cooking.","Just before serving add a few hard crackers broken into bits."],"categories":[],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":null,"source_name":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39550","source_ref":"pg:39550:w32:2","authors_url":null,"license":"Public domain (US)","license_url":null,"extraction_confidence":0.95,"content_hash":"f801ade7de1880b388ea5596efea1cb060a6932cc6d8750dd6ee12dc77958bfc","created_at":"2026-08-02T16:39:51Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:32Z","notice":"Historical recipe (1919), reproduced as published: it may reflect its era's ingredients, language, and food-safety practices. Apply modern judgment on cooking temperatures and preservation.","url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/clam-chowder-boston-style"}