{"id":1126,"slug":"eel-chowder","title":"Eel Chowder","description":null,"ingredients_raw":["2 cups water","⅓ cup white wine","2 tablespoons vinegar","2 tablespoons parsley","1 onion, peeled and sliced","2 carrots, peeled and diced","1 bay leaf","6 peppercorns","Salt","1 ea. (about 1–2 lbs) medium-sized eel, cut into 2-inch pieces","2 tablespoons butter or margarine","1 ½ tablespoons flour","8 cups beef stock","1 bunch pot herbs","1 teaspoon mint, minced","½ cup celery, diced","½ cauliflower head, broken into small florets","1 cup peas","1 cup sugar","½ cup water","6 pears, peeled and seeded"],"ingredients_norm":["water","white wine","vinegar","parsley","onion","carrot","bay leaf","peppercorn","salt","ea. medium sized eel","butter or margarine","flour","beef stock","pot herb","mint","celery","cauliflower head broken into small floret","pea","sugar","pear"],"steps":["Combine the 2 cups water, wine, vinegar, 2 sprigs parsley, onion, one carrot, bay leaf, peppercorns and salt; bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes.","Add eel, and cook slowly until fish is tender.","Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large kettle; add the flour and cook until blended.","Add beef stock, pot herbs, mint and celery; cook slowly for 1 hour.","Cook cauliflower and peas in boiling salted water until crisp-tender.","Make a syrup with the ½ cup water and sugar. Add pears and simmer gently until tender. Remove pears from syrup.","To serve, first remove eel from liquid in which it was cooked.","Strain the eel cooking liquid, and add half of it to the soup base.","Drain the cooked vegetables and add to the soup base.","Place cooked eel and pears in a large tureen. Pour the soup base over top, and serve."],"categories":["Seafood recipes","Recipes for chowder","Recipes using pear","Recipes using eel","Boiled recipes","Recipes using butter","Recipes using bay leaf","Recipes using sugar","Recipes using carrot","Recipes using cauliflower","Recipes using celery","Recipes using wheat flour","Recipes using beef broth and stock","Recipes using margarine","Recipes using mint"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":"6","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Eel_Chowder","source_ref":"4531784","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Eel_Chowder&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"2aeb54c28d78843b390da7b19da021c1d772546a8461158c0c4d912d6a04bd5b","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:01Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/eel-chowder"}