New England Lobster Chowder

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1/3 cup rendered bacon or 1/3 cup salt lamb fat
• 2 soda crackers, finely crushed
• 1 quart milk, scalded
• 2 cups lobsters, cooked and cubed (either canned or fresh may be used)
• 1 cup cream, heated
• salt
• pepper
• cayenne pepper, to taste

Recipe

• 1 cook the onion in the fat until translucent and lightly golden.
• 2 strain and reserve the fat, discarding the onion.
• 3 to two tablespoons of the fat, add the crushed soda crackers.
• 4 add the hot milk gradually, stirring constantly until smooth; add lobster and heat in the top of a double boiler for 20 minutes.
• 5 add seasonings to taste, the remainder of the strained fat and the hot cream.
• 6 serve with chowder crackers.