Chowder, a Sea Dish

Ingredients

• firm fish
• salt
• pepper
• salt pork
• onion
• crackers
• 2 gills white wine
• 2 gills water
• flour
• 1 spoonful butter
• parsley

Instructions

1. Take any kind of firm fish and cut it in pieces six inches long; sprinkle salt and pepper over each piece.
2. Cover the bottom of a small Dutch oven with slices of salt pork about half boiled.
3. Lay in the fish, strewing a little chopped onion between.
4. Cover with crackers that have been soaked soft in milk.
5. Pour over it two gills of white wine, and two of water.
6. Put on the top of the oven and stew it gently about an hour.
7. Take it out carefully and lay it in a deep dish.
8. Thicken the gravy with a little flour and a spoonful of butter, add some chopped parsley, and boil it a few minutes.
9. Pour it over the fish and serve it up hot.