Massachusetts

• Boston Baked Beans

  Pea beans boiled soft before anything sweet touches them, a scored block of salt pork buried rind up, and six hours in a slow oven with the lid off for the last one.

  Total

  6 hr 50 min

  Serves

  8

  Calories

  450 per serving

• Boston Cream Pie

  A butter cake baked in two pie tins, split by a cooked cream filling, with powdered sugar on top — the way every nineteenth-century book that prints it prints it.

  Total

  2 hr 30 min

  Serves

  8

  Calories

  465 per serving

• Ipswich Fried Clams

  Whole soft-shell clams, belly and neck together, through evaporated milk and corn flour and ninety seconds of hot fat.

  Total

  50 min

  Serves

  4

  Calories

  665 per serving

• New England Clam Chowder

  Clams steamed open in the pot the chowder is built in, salt pork rendered in the same pot, and milk that never comes to a boil.

  Total

  1 hr 15 min

  Serves

  6

  Calories

  425 per serving

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