“Four tablespoonfuls of onions, fried with pork.  One quart of boiled potatoes, well mashed.  One and a half pounds sea-biscuit, broken.  One teaspoonful of thyme, mixed with one of summer savory.  Half-bottle of mushroom catsup.  One bottle of port or claret.  Half of a nutmeg, grated.  A few cloves, mace, and allspice.  Six pounds of fish, sea-bass or cod, cut in slices.  Twenty five oysters, a little black pepper, and a few slices of lemon.  The whole put in a pot, covered with an inch of water, boiled for an hour, and gently stirred.”

Chowder Recipe, by Daniel Webster (1885)

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Textured tritone photograph; Hanover’s Sheppard Mansion