Haddock Chowder, Passamaquoddy Bay

The Centennial Food Guide, one of the best Canadian cookery books, reveals Dr Charles Best, co-discoverer of insulin, as the author of this recipe. The chowder is to be preceded by clams steamed in seaweed and eaten with melted butter and vinegar, ‘on a clear September evening beside a towering driftwood fire on the beach at Passamaquoddy Bay, New Brunswick, at half-tide’. The haddock should if possible be freshly caught from the Bay of Fundy. Quantities are for eigh