Deviled Clams
Contributed by Helene Noreen.
Ingredients
- 10 clams
- 1 Tbsp. butter
- 2 Tbsp. flour
- 1 c. milk or cream
- 2 Tbsp. bread crumbs
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 Tbsp. chopped parsley
- Salt and pepper
Method
- Drain clams and rinse in cold water.
- Make a white sauce with the fat, flour, and milk or cream, and put in crumbs, raw egg yolks, and parsley.
- Remove from fire, add chopped clams, pepper to taste and salt if needed.
- Fill clams shells or small ramekins with the mixture.
- Brush with beaten yolk of egg, sprinkle with bread crumbs, and brown in hot oven of 400. Serves 4.
Original page from the cookbook
About this recipe
This recipe is transcribed verbatim from a spiral-bound community cookbook produced in Pismo Beach, California. The book was a fundraising publication of the type common to civic groups, church auxiliaries, and fishing communities on the California coast in the mid-twentieth century — recipes contributed by named cooks, illustrated with hand-drawn section dividers, and printed locally.
Spellings, measurements, and ingredient lists are preserved as they appeared in print, including typographic quirks and any inconsistencies. Where an ingredient is used in the method but was missing from the printed ingredient block, it has been added to the list here so the recipe is self-contained; every such addition is taken word-for-word from the printed method.
The full yesteryear collection preserves 123 recipes from this book. The modern collection is open to new contributions from today's Pismo clammers.