Serves 8

Ingredients:

• ¼ pound salt pork
• 1 dozen ears sweet corn
• 1 quart cranberry beans, shelled
• Water
• 1 quart rich milk
• ¼ pound butter
• 2 tbsp. flour
• 4 tbsp. cold water
• Salt and pepper

Preparation:

Cut the pork into cubers, and cut the uncooked corn from the cob. Then take the beans, the pork, and the cobs and place it in a large kettle and cover it all with water. Let this cook until the beans have become soft and tender. Then remove the cobs and scrape, add the scrapings to the kettle. Then take the milk, the pepper, the salt, and the butter and add to the mixture. Then add in the cut corn and let it simmer for about twenty minutes. Add in the flour mixed with the cold water to thicken the chowder. Then remove from the heat and allow the chowder to stand for a day. Then heat up again and you may serve!

Reheat and serve.