Cut salt pork into very small squares and fry a light brown; add 1 large or 2 small onions, cut very fine, and cook about 10 minutes; add 2 qts. water and 1 qt. clams; mix 1 tablespoon flour with the water, put it with 1 pt. of milk, and pour into the soup and let it boil about 5 minutes; butter, pepper and salt, Worcestershire sauce to taste. - Mrs. A. C. Christy, Glen View, 111.

Variation I

Cook 2 qts. of clams 20 minutes in their liquor; add salt and pepper, 3 pts. of milk, 2 tablespoons of flour, mixed with butter size of an egg. Let come to a boil and strain. - Mrs. E. D. Kelley, Winnetka, 111.

Clam Broth

Put 1 pt. of clams and 1/2 a cup of cold water, in the farina boiler. Have the water in the outside kettle cold, and let it heat slowly. Cook for 30 minutes after the water in the outside kettle is boiled. Strain the liquid from the clams, put them through the meat juice extractor, and add extracted liquor to strained liquid. Heat when ready to serve, unless desired cold, and dilute with water, if neecssary. - Mrs. Chris. Worthing-ton, Des Plaines, 111.

Bisque Of Clams

Take 50 clams, 1 qt. of milk, 1 pt. water, 2 tablespoons of butter; save all the liquor the clams contain. Put over the fire with a doz.-whole peppers, 1/2 doz. blades of mace, and salt to taste. Let it boil for 10 minutes, then drop in the clams. Let boil quickly for 1/2 hr keeping the pot covered. Strain the liquid before the clams are added. Be careful not to let the soup burn. - Mrs. E. D. Kelley, Winnetka, 111.

Clam-Juice Broth

Wash in cold water in their shells, place in a granite-pan with just a few drops of water; when they (become hot, their shells will open. Pour out the broth, season to suit the taste, and serve. - Mrs. C. J. Jeffries, Winnetka, 111.

Clam Chowder

Prepare 6 potatoes, chopped, or put through meat grinder, 6 onions, treated same way, 1 carrot; cook these vegetables in 2 qts. of water. Add 1/2 lb. of salt pork, which has been cut into dice and fried to a crisp, 1/2 can tomato juice, and meat of 12 clams, chopped fine. - Mrs. Chas. Ellis, Winnetka, 111.