Prince's Chowder

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• 1 slice of 4 varieties fish (cod 1 slice sole 1 slice flounder 1 slice haddock etc.)
• 2 dozen mussels
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• salt
• 8 oysters, shucked, liquor reserved
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 onions, sliced
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1/4 lb butter
• 1/4 lb ham, chopped
• 1 large tomato, diced
• 6 sorrel, minced (optional)
• 1 small eel, skinned and sliced
• 8 shrimp (shelled)

Recipe

• 1 slowly fry the onions and garlic in the butter in a saucepan without browning; add the ham and fry, then the tomato.
• 2 add the sorrel, eel, shrimps and fish and turn them in the mixture, shaking the pan, until they are heated through.
• 3 meanwhile, steam the mussels open, and remove from the shells.
• 4 add sufficient boiling water to the liquid left in the mussel saucepan to make 1 1/4 quarts; drop in the mussels and cook for 15 minutes.
• 5 strain the liquid and pour it over the frying fish mixture; add the bay leaf, pepper and salt, then place over a low heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
• 6 add the oysters with their liquor, and simmer until they crinkle.
• 7 add the lemon juice and serve, putting a little of each fish and seafood in each serving. (the mussels are discarded.).