Put everything in a large kettle, add one cube of butter and enough water to cover. Grind with the clams: 1 green pepper, 1 bunch green onions, 6 slices of bacon, 2 large potatoes, 1 bunch parsley. A good recipe for a quick delicious Clam Chowder which we have evolved over the years is: At least four cups of butter clams cut out of their shell and washed thoroughly. It takes an almost fanatical affection for children or clams to put up with the 'What's this little green thing, Mommy? Do we eat this ugly black part? Do you think this is a worm?' that always accompanies any child's eating of clams.

With steamed clams we like only hot buttered toast and adults. 'Digging clams on your own beach is a special thing. Emilion, Chateau Ausone, pounded into two pounds of fresh truffles.' Men's magazines have much better recipes than women's magazines, but are apt to go to the other extreme and demand 'six tiny bitter oranges from the island of Crete, one-fourth litre of St. Another thing, why do terrible cooks always have their houses so hot, their coffee so cold?. I don't know what is happening to the women of America but it ought to be stopped. A hospital group dredged up a salad of elbow macaroni, pineapple chunks, Spanish peanuts, chopped cabbage, chopped marshmallows, ripe olives and salad dressing. produced casual refreshments of large cold slightly sweet hamburger buns spread with relish, sweet salad dressing, dried beef and cheese, then whisked under the broiler just long enough to make the cheese gummy and the relish warm. It was at another baby shower that I first encountered a ring mold of mushroom soup, hard-boiled eggs, canned shrimps (that special brand that taste like Lysol) and lime Jello, the center heaped with chopped sweet pickles, the whole topped with a mustardy, sweet salad dressing. and chunks of pure white lettuce and boiled dressing.

When it could not be avoided any longer I took a bite and it was tuna fish and marshmallows and walnuts and pimento. consisted of large lumpy salad in lettuce cups, homemade banana bread, black olives and lukewarm very weak coffee.

Onions in the Stew by Betty MacDonald