New England Clambake Greatest Eating Experience
There's nothing like a New England clambake for cooking fresh seafood, including lobster, crab, mussels, clams, and quahogs. Often the seafood is augmented with onions, carrots, corn, sausages, potatoes, and more. The New England Clambake is generally held to mark special occasions all over the shoreline of New England.
In order to have a New England Clambake, you must first gather seaweed. To keep it fresh, you need a container that can hold both the seaweed and a substantial amount of sea water. You will also need several round stones, or even cannon balls, which will be heated in your pit and then used to create the heat for the steaming process.
In conclusion, as is the case with any situation where you are using steam to prepare food, you will need to enclose everything under a covering of some sort. This allows the energy to spread evenly, and thoroughly cook everything under the cover. In many cases, as tarp or several potato sacks doused in ocean water are used. This is because such surfaces are good at keeping heat within, yet letting air through.
Steaming is a great way to cook mollusks, because you will not overcook them even though some mollusks need to cook for longer periods of time than others. Steaming also allows food to cook slowly while all the different flavors blend harmoniously. As a rule of thumb, squid needs more time to cook than fish does, and fish need to be cooked longer than shrimp. By using the steaming method, you can put all the foods in at the same time, and they will all get done without overcooking some of them.
Fresh seafood is definitely preferred, in order for the bake to be a worthy bake. The New England Clambake is really not much different than a Cape Cod Clambake. The ingredients are pretty much the same and the Cape Cod Clambake uses the same methods as the New England one.
Many people will attest that a clambake is one of the greatest culinary experiences that one may have. There are so many great foods and cuisines that one can argue endlessly about which is the absolute greatest. However, there's no disputing that a clambake is perfect for any true lover of seafood.
There's nothing like a New England clambake for cooking fresh seafood, including lobster, crab, mussels, clams, and quahogs. Often the seafood is augmented with onions, carrots, corn, sausages, potatoes, and more. The classic recipe for a New England / Cape Cod Clambake starts with gathering seaweed along the shore; it's a vital ingredient for helping to prepare the food. You will need a container large enough to hold the seaweed and sea water. You will also need several round stones, medium in size, to be heated in the pit. A clambake is one of the greatest eating experiences for a seafood lover or not.
Published December 25th, 2007
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