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Lunch

Clam and Tomato Bisque

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 quart clams
  • 1½ cups cold water
  • ⅓ cup butter
  • ⅓ cup flour
  • ½ onion
  • 2 cups cream
  • 1 cup stewed and strained tomatoes
  • ⅛ teaspoon soda
  • Salt
  • Cayenne

Make it happen

Directions

  1. 1

    Pour water over clams, then drain. To water add hard part of clams finely chopped. Heat slowly to boiling-point, cook twenty minutes, then strain. Cook butter with onion five minutes; remove onion, add flour and gradually clam 133 water. Add cream, soft part of clams, and as soon as boiling-point is reached, tomatoes to which soda has been added. Season with salt and cayenne, and serve at once.

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