Ingredients: Serves 8

• 3-inch cube fat salt pork, diced
• 3 onions, sliced
• 4 cups potatoes cut in small cubes
• 1 quart shucked clams (quahogs)
• 2 cups boiling water
• 1 cup stewed, strained tomatoes
• ¼ teaspoon soda
• 1 cup milk, scalded
• 1 cup thin cream
• 2 tablespoons butter
• Salt and pepper
• 8 common crackers, split

How to Prepare:

Dry out pork until crisp; remove scraps. Cook onion in fat until lightly browned, remove, add potatoes to fat and stir and cook over low flame 10 minutes. Chop hard part of clams fine and add with onion to potatoes. Cover with boiling water and simmer until potatoes are nearly done. Stir soda into tomatoes and add with soft part of clam. Simmer gently on back of stove at least 30 minutes. When ready to serve add scalded milk, cream, butter and seasonings. Serve over crackers which have been moistened in cold milk or with crackers served dry.