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Lunch

Clam and Oyster Soup

A turn-of-the-century lunch recipe featuring clams, with the original instructions and source page intact.

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What you’ll need

Ingredients

  • 1 pint clams
  • 1 pint oysters
  • 4 cups milk
  • 1 slice onion
  • 2 blades mace
  • Sprig of parsley
  • Bit of bay leaf
  • ⅓ cup butter
  • ⅓ cup flour
  • Salt and pepper

Make it happen

Directions

  1. 1

    Clean and pick over oysters, using one-third cup cold water; reserve liquor, and add oysters slightly chopped. 132 Clean and pick over clams, reserve liquor, and add to hard part of clams, finely chopped; put aside soft part of clams. Heat slowly to boiling-point clams and oysters with liquor from both, let simmer twenty minutes and strain through cheese-cloth. Scald milk with onion, mace, parsley, and bay leaf; remove seasonings, and add milk to stock. Thicken with butter and flour cooked together, add soft part of clams, and cook two minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

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