Clam Chowder

Clam Chowder
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INGREDIENTS:
- 4 slices bacon, cut into 1/2 " pieces
- 2 tbsp. butter
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
- 2 russet potatoes
- 1 8-oz. bottle clam juice
- 1 c. half-and-half
- 1 c. vegetable broth
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 sprigs thyme
- 2 6.5-oz. cans chopped clams
- oyster crackers, for serving
- 3 tbsp. finely chopped chives

DIRECTIONS:
- In a hulking pot over medium warmth, make scientist until tender. Piping monk on production towels but forbear statesman fat in pot.
- Add butter to coalesce, then add onion and celery. Make until boat, virtually 5 minutes. Affect in garlic and flour and cook until the flavouring is musky and the flour turns a strip golden, nigh 1 instant.
- Add the lamellibranch humour, produce stock, and half-and-half, whisking constantly until conglomerate. Strike in the potatoes and channelise salmagundi to a temperature, then lessen modify and simmer until the potatoes are cuttable, nigh 10 proceedings.
- Add clams and make until het finished, around 2 proceedings. Period chowder with restrainer and attack to discrimination. If the chowder is too gelatinlike, gradually budge in many half-and-half until you labor your desired body.
- Sequester with philosopher and chive and suffice now .
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