1 pint soft clams Salt Pepper

1 tablespoonful butter Cold water

A large soup pot

Strainer

Bowl

Put 1 pint of fresh soft clams into a large pot and pour enough cold water over them to cover them.

Stand the pot on a hot part of the stove until the water boils up hard.

Take the pot off and strain the water and juice through a fine strainer into a bowl.

The clams are very nice to eat just as they are, with salt and pepper and butter, but if you do not care for them they can be given to the cat or dog, who will probably appreciate them.

Put into the broth 1 teaspoonful of salt and 1/4 of a teaspoonful of pepper and 1 tablespoonful of butter.

Put it back into the pot and stand on the stove to get really hot again but do not let it boil up.

Serve hot.

This makes enough broth for 8 people.