chowder

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I'd already made gammon before Christmas and you can't very well make a starter out of Champagne alone ... so I decided to try smoked salmon three ways: as a chowder, a quiche and a pate.

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  1. noun A thick soup containing fish or shellfish, especially clams, and vegetables, such as potatoes and onions, in a milk or tomato base.
  2. noun A soup similar to this seafood dish: corn chowder.

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  • By this time the chowder was cold Qwilleran addressed him stiffly. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_13_The_Cat_Who_Moved_a_Mountain
  • Further back were several other pitiful vegetables that had no business in a chowder, and he added these as well. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
  • : I'm really jonesing for a great seafood chowder, but it's a little hot for such a thick, heavy soup.
  • But honestly, there are very few of them, and they are still usable in a chowder or smoked salmon Alfredo if placing those few little tidbits on top of a canape doesn't float your boat. —  Daily Financial News
  • Chapter 42, is sponsoring its annual all-you-can-eat Lenten supper of chowder (Manhattan / red) and clam cakes following the 5 p.m. Mass. —  News from www.thesunchronicle.com
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  1. French chaudière, stew pot, from Old French, from Late Latin caldāria; see cauldron.

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  1. Origin unknown. In first sense perhaps from French chaudière, a caldron: see chalder , caldron. “In the fishing-villages of Brittany faire la chaudière is to provide a caldron in which is cooked a mess of fish and biscuit with some savory condiments—a ‘hodgepodge’ contributed by the fishermen themselves, each of whom in return receives his share of the prepared dish. The French would seem to have carried this practice to America.” N. and Q.
  2. from chowder, n.
 

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