OUTER BANKS CLAM CHOWDER

      Title: OUTER BANKS CLAM CHOWDER
  Categories: Soups
       Yield: 6 Servings
  
       2    Dozen clams, shucked;
            -reserve juice
       1 lg Onion, diced
     1/3 lb Good fatback, diced
       3 md To 4 md potatoes, cubed
  
   Lots of coarsly ground black pepper
   
   Render out the diced fatback (you can substitute bacon if you like,
   but...) and fry until crisp.  Remove pieces and reserve. Saute onions
   in the grease.  Add the potatoes and coat well. Add pepper and clam
   juice, supplement with another can of clam juice. Cover and simmer
   gently for about 15 minutes.  Add clams (which you will have
   chopped), cook for about 3 minutes. Serve this in deep soup bowls and
   top with crisp bits of fatback or bacon.
   
   This is the way they've made it down home for more than 100 years. It
   ain't fancy, but oh my is it fine!
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