The Complete Fourth of July Clam Fest

There is nothing like a seashore celebration in the middle of the summertime. Fourth of July is a superb excuse to look at the fireworks by the seaside and getting a get together and taking advantage of the awesome night sea breeze. Here's a full checklist of recipes that cover your full evening meal. The ideal is to launch with a fourth of July clam chowder as an appetizer and have baked clams for the chief dish and watermelons for dessert. How does that sound?

For your fourth of July clam chowder you'll require the subsequent ingredients:

• two cans clams, drained
  
• 2 celery stalks, chopped
  
• two tablespoons dehydrated onion
  
• one can cream of celery soup
  
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup
  
• one can cream of potato soup
  
• 1 pint fifty percent and half or milk

Open the clams and drain the juice from them into a pan and cook the celery and onion in the juice until such time as they're tender. It'll take about ten minutes. In the pan, add the 3 cans of soup and dilute with half and 50 percent or milk to desired consistency. Bring to a boil -- add the clams but do not boil once again.

Now that your appetizer is prepared lets go bake the clams! The enjoyable aspect is you are going to do this on the seashore! Very first you'll might need the following ingredients for a celebration of 8.

• eight baking or sweet potatoes
  
• 8 ears of corn
  
• 8 onions
  
• eight chicken halves
  
• 8 live lobsters
  
• 4 to 8 dozen clams
  
• Around 12lbs. of combined greeds (collard greens, kale, and so on.)
  
• corn on the cob
  
• lemons and melted butter

The components you will need to have to bake the clam --

• About fifteen yards of damp cheesecloth
  
• 3 rolls of weighty duty -- 37 1/two ft. aluminum foil.
  
• one hundred lbs. of utterly dry rocks (the dimensions of grapefruit)
  
• Firewood and kindling

Here's how to make your fourth of July clam baking pit:

Dig a bow-shaped pit of three ft. in diameter and one.five feet deep in the middle. Applying crisscross pattern, line up the pit with double thickness of the serious duty aluminum foil. Then, a layer of dry rocks about the dimensions of a grapefruit. MAKE Confident THE ROCKS ARE DRY - WET ROCKS CAN EXPLODE!

Create a bonfire on high of the rocks in the pit. Use firewood and kindling. Allow the fire burn 1.five to two hrs or until such time as burned down and rocks are very hot. Be aware: Do not use charcoal. Soak corn-on-the-cob (with silk taken out) and mixed greens in cold water even though fire is burning. Wash clams and set aside. Peel onions eradicate ends. Oil
potatoes. Refrigerate lobster on ice. Marinate the chicken halves with salt and pepper.

As soon as the fire has burned down, operate immediately to prevent rocks from dropping heat. Tamp down embers. On high of rocks, layer pit in the subsequent order: 50 percent of the greens, strips of wet cheesecloth, potatoes, corn, onions, chicken halves, dwell lobsters and clams. Cover foods with remaining wet cheesecloth, then greens. Cover pit with major duty aluminum foil. Crimp all sides to the edges of aluminum foil employed to line the pit. Let food steam cook forty to 60 minutes.

Get rid of the foods immediately when it's finished. Cooking periods will vary relying on temperature of rocks. Peek at clams just after forty minutes. If they are open and lobsters are brilliant red, dinner is all set. Serve with melted butter and lemon. Yummy!

Now comes the fourth of July dessert! (And by this time possibly the fireworks would have started out and you can have fun with the present.)

• 12 c. melon balls (watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew)
  
• 1 c. lightly packed fresh new mint leaves, thinly sliced
  
• three tbsp. Tremendous-Very good sugar
  
• three tbsp. cognac or brandy
  
• three c. chilled champagne or other sparkling white wine
  
• clean mint to garnish

Combine first of all 4 substances in substantial bowl. Refrigerate at least thirty minutes. Spoon fruit into dessert goblets. Pour champagne over fruit. Garnish with mint and serve. Helps make 8-ten servings.

Have fun with the night! Glad Fourth of July clam fest!

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