Clam pie

A clam pie is a savory pie of New England cooking that uses clams, especially quahogs, as its main ingredient. Besides whole or chopped clams and a pie crust, cooks may add potatoes, corn, onion, celery, garlic, clam juice, milk, eggs, butter, crushed crackers and seasonings, and some thicken the filling with flour. Fresh or canned clams both work, and the pie is baked. The dish probably predates English settlement in Southern New England, because there is evidence that the Wampanoag ate pies made from clams before the English arrived in the early 1600s, and English colonists, who valued pies as a way to keep food through the winter, cooked many kinds themselves. A well-known regional version from eastern Long Island, New York, is the Bonac clam pie, whose recipes pass down through families and vary from one to the next.