Chowder
Chowder is an American name for a thick fish soup or a soup with mussels or other seafood , with clam chowder being the best known. Chowder is now also used as a generic term for various creamy soups that only contain roughly chopped vegetables and no fish. The base of the broth is always cured pork or bacon . This type of soup, whichresemblesa stew , is particularly common in the northeastern United States.
The term chowder is derived from the French word Chaudrée for a soup of the Chaudière , a pot with three legs, standing directly over the fire.
The oldest American recipes are fish chowder with cod . Historians believe that French sailors brought their way of making fish soup with them to New England and Nova Scotia in the 17th and 18th centuries . They used cured pork for the broth and ship rusks for thickening. The oldest known recipe appeared in the Boston Evening Post in Boston in 1751 . American cookbooks didn't exist at the time. The first recipe in a cookbook was published by Amelia Simmons in 1800. The term first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1762.
In the old recipes, the ingredients of the soup were placed in layers in the pot. Lydia Maria Child first mentions clams (American clams ) as an ingredient in her cookbook The American Frugal Housewife in 1832 and recommends lemon juice, beer and ketchup for refining .
Others
This dish found its way into literature in the 1851 novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville , which named a chapter after it. In it, the protagonists eat both clam chowder and cod chowder in a small restaurant on Nantucket .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson: Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine. P. 26
- ↑ a b History of Chowder
- ↑ Excerpt from Moby Dick (Engl.) ( Memento of 17 October 2007 at the Internet Archive )