OLD SPAGHETTI FACTORY ORIGINAL CLAM SAUCE

      Title: OLD SPAGHETTI FACTORY ORIGINAL CLAM SAUCE
  Categories: Sauces, Seafood, Pasta, Main dish
       Yield: 6 Servings
  
       3 oz Butter
       2    Garlic cloves -- fine
            Chopped
     1/2 md Onion -- finely chopped
       3 md Celery stalks (outside --
            Peeled); finely chop
       3 tb Flour
       2 cn Chopped clams -- (6 oz ea)
       1 qt Half and half
     1/4 ts Ground thyme
       1 ts Salt
  
   Combine butter, garlic, onion and celery in a saucepan. Braise over
   medium-low heat until tender but not brown. Add the flour, and mix to
   make a roux. Drain clams, reserving juice. In a separate saucepan,
   combine clam juice, half-and-half, thyme and salt. Heat until just
   below boiling. Add to roux, and cook until sauce thickens. Add clams,
   stirring gently to mix through out the sauce. Serve over noodles.
   Recipe from the food section of San Diego Union Tribune, Feb 16,
   1995. MM formatted by Mary Wilson, BWVB02B.
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