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posted by looks4hawks at 9:32 am (EST) on Apr 5, 2008

Just in case you'd rather have chowda - here's my wife Natalie's chowda recipes for clams and quahogs

CLAM CHOWDER
6 dozen clams, steamed and shelled
6 medium potatoes, pared and diced
1 medium onion, chopped
1 quart milk
2 Tbsp. butter or margarine
salt/pepper to taste
Cook clams or use clams left over from steamed clam dinner. Quahogs may also be used, but they make a "stronger" chowder. Peel, cube and cook potatoes until almost tender. Melt butter in bottom of pan. Saute chopped onion, only slightly. Add clams and potatoes and bring almost to the boil. Add enough milk to cover the chowder, and simmer gently until potatoes are soft. Do not boil! Add salt and pepper to taste.

QUAHOG CHOWDER
You can use raw quahogs for a stronger chowder. Open the Quahog shells with a sharp knife, grind them up in a food processor, add to the melted butter and onion in the bottom of a pot and cook to the boiling point. Then add potatoes and follow above.

posted by donsmith at 11:31 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2008

http://www.edc.uri.edu/restoration/html/...

Quahogs are found in the Cape Cod mud. Usually about 10 to 20 yards offshore. In some places you are not allowed to "rake" for quahogs because the town fathers figure that they might be "polluted". So at half tide you have to put on your bathing suit with the biggest pockets and "feel" for the quahogs, usually about an inch or two in the "mud between your toes". You then grasp the quahog between your toes and before anyone looks, place it in the pockets of your suit. If the action gets really good you might end up with lots of quahogs in other "places" in your bathing suit depending on gender. You then swim carefully toward shore and deposit all of your "treasures" in a burlap bag you have carefully weighted down with a brick or two before you entered the water. That evening you go back to the burlap bag and act really surprised about what happened to "jump" into it. (be sure the bag is located below the low tide level so someone else won't see or steal your treasures). That night you "shuck" your quahogs (remove the delicious meat) from the hard shells and make "chowda" or pancakes. My mother, Gladys, was know family wide for the inventive places she might hide her quahogs in her bathing suit.

Don Smith

posted by donsmith at 11:20 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2008

This is "life is good". Have one of those T-shirts. In case you ever wiggle your toes in the mud and find some:

Here's my Mom's recipe for Quahog Pancakes. It goes back a few generations on Cape Cod.

QUAHOG PANCAKES
1 pint minced quahogs (use an old meat grinder if possible)
2 eggs
1/3 cup milk
1 1/3 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
salt/pepper
Mix all ingredients but the quahogs; it should be like pancake batter. Add 1 pint of quahogs (more if desired). Fry in lightly greased fry pan like regular pancakes. These are also called fritters. Serve with catsup. Makes 8 pancakes. (don't use maple syrup)

Gladys Smith

posted by donsmith at 11:29 am (EST) on Mar 27, 2008