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The Famous Rhode Island or St. James' Chowder for Six. —
The Providence Journal says that some of its readers will recall the late James Brown, whose social sayings have come down to the present, and shall not be gainsaid. The following is his recipe for a chowder very famous in his day, and not altogether forgotten in ours:
" Take 6 slices of good pickled pork (pig preferred), and fry them in the bottom of a good-sized dinner-pot, turning the slices until they are brown on both sides. Take out the slices of pork, leaving the drippings in the pot. Take 7 lbs. of tautaug (a favorite fish along the New England coast) dressed (leaving the heads on) or 10 lbs. of scup (tautaug to be preferred), and cut each in 3 pieces, unless small, when cut them in two. Place in the pot, on the drippings, as many pieces of fish as will fairly cover the bottom of the pot. Throw into the pot, on the fish, 3 handfuls of onions, peeled and sliced in thin
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