Melt butter; add flour, tomatoes and seasonings. Combine mixtures, and pour over buttered crackers which have been previously soaked in cold milk.
Lobster Chowder
- 2 cups lobster meat
¼ cup onion
¼ cup salt pork fat
2 tablespoons butter
4 cups milk
salt, cayenne, blade of mace
1 cup hot cream
2 tablespoons flour
Cook onion in salt pork fat; melt butter; add flour, milk and seasonings, and cook in double boiler with lobster cut in cubes twenty minutes; add strained salt pork fat, hot cream, and serve.
Crab Chowder
Prepare the same as [Lobster Chowder], substituting crab meat for lobster meat.
Shrimp Chowder
Prepare the same as [Lobster Chowder], substituting shrimps for lobster meat.
Salt Codfish Chowder
- ¼ cup salt pork fat
2 onions cut in small pieces
2 cups shredded codfish
1 cup cream
4 tablespoons butter
3 cups potato cut in cubes
salt, pepper, cayenne
1 cup boiling water
8 crackers buttered
2 tablespoons flour