Jfk's Fish Chowder

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 lbs haddock
• 2 cups water
• 2 ounces diced salt lamb (or bacon)
• 2 onions, sliced
• 4 large potatoes, peeled and diced
• 1 cup celery, chopped
• 1 bay leaf, crumbled
• 1 teaspoon salt
• fresh ground pepper
• boiling water, as needed
• 3 cups milk
• 1 (13 ounce) can evaporated milk
• 2 tablespoons butter

Recipe

• 1 simmer haddock in a fish-poaching pan for 15 minutes. drain. reserve fish, broth and bones.
• 2 in a 10-inch skillet, saute diced lamb until crisp. remove lamb with a slotted spoon and reserve.
• 3 saute onion in the lamb fat until golden brown.
• 4 add fish (flaked), bones, potatoes, celery, bay leaf, salt and pepper.
• 5 pour in fish broth plus enough boiling water to make 3 cups of liquid and simmer for 30 minutes.
• 6 add milk and evaporated milk and simmer for 5 minutes. correct seasonings and remove bay leaf and all the bones.
• 7 add butter. serve in a heated soup tureen and sprinkle top with salt lamb.