I will say that I like to cook (and if I have good luck, to eat) a dish
for which the following is the recipe:
First catch your fish with hook and line,—salmon, trout or bass, cod,
haddock or blue-fish. Then obtain a good sized kettle and put into it,
first a layer of sliced potatoes, then a fine sprinkling of fine sliced
onion, then a layer of fat pork cut into small cubes, then a layer
of fish, skinned and sliced, then a layer of crackers or thin pilot
biscuit. Sprinkle salt and pepper on each layer according to taste.
Repeat the layers from three to five times according to the size of
your kettle. Fill the pot moderately full with water and put it on the
fire to cook slowly. If the water gets low replenish it. You can tell
when the dish is done by testing the potatoes or the fish with a fork.
As a rule it should take about an hour to cook. Just before the end put
in two or three cupfuls of milk. If your taste is slightly vitiated
by contact with the world you may add a double spoonful of some spicy
sauce. But for my part I like a chowder best _au naturel_.