Mock Clam Chowder

Put 5 or 6 slices of fat salt pork in a hot sauce pan and try them out thoroughly, then remove the crisp pieces of pork and add to the tried out fat 5 potatoes and 5 onions, chopped coarse with about 1/2 cup water, and let simmer 3/4 hour. Then add 1 1/2 cups scalded milk, and pepper and salt to taste. Just before serving, drop in the crisp pieces of tried out salt pork, and serve with crisp saltine crackers.-[Mrs. C. J., Ct.

Corn Chowder

Fry 3 slices salt pork and 2 onions sliced thin, and when brown add 2 qts water. When this boils add 1/2 doz potatoes, peeled and sliced, and 1 qt can of corn. Let boil about 20 minutes, then add 1 pt scalded sweet milk. Season to taste with salt and butter, and serve at once, with crisp crackers.-[B. H. K Me.

Potato Chowder

Fry until crisp 4 or 5 slices of salt pork, then slice in 3 onions, and when these are fried light brown, add 5 potatoes, sliced, with water to cover. Cover and cook till the potatoes are done. Just before serving add 1 pt hot milk, and serve with crisp crackers.-[Mrs. H. A. D., Mass.

Egg Chowder

Fry 2 or 3 slices of salt pork till quite brown, then add 4 or 5 potatoes, sliced, and hot water to cover. When the potatoes are done, add 1 pt hot milk, and slice in 5 hard boiled eggs. Let boil up once, add a generous lump of butter, with salt and pepper to taste, and serve at once.-[F. L. R., Ct.

Fish Chowder

Trim and cut up about 4 or 5 lbs of any fresh fish, discarding bones and skin. Put the bones and skin on in a separate vessel in a little water, and let simmer gently 10 minutes. Cut up 1/2 lb salt pork, and fry until light brown, then add 2 onions cut in thin slices and cover and cook 5 minutes, after which add 2 tablesp flour and cook 5 minutes longer, stirring frequently. Over this strain the water in which the fish bones were cooked, and add the fish and 1 qt potatoes cut in slices. Season with salt and pepper, and simmer 15 minutes, or until the potatoes and fish are done, after which add 1 pt milk. Let boil up once more, then serve hot with oyster crackers. The milk may be omitted and 1 pt tomatoes used instead.-[N. P., N. H.