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--Everything made from scratch.
--Everyone had assigned seats -- made serving easier.
**Original Bozo the Clown was Ray Cosmo, a family friend, whose recipe this was.
*Circus Girls Cookbook-Sarah's cookbook; this recipe isn't it.
*Ingredients:
-1 1/2" salt pork piece
--celery>finely chopped
--onion   - chopped by hand or in food processor
--fresh clams (or frozen)
--clam juice (enhances seafood taste)
--milk (scalded)
--potatoes-chopped
--bay leaf
--flour, pepper, butter
-Render pork & smear over inside of pan.
- Saute celery & onion.
--Add in the clam broth, bay leaf, most of pork cubes.
--Bring to boil; add in (parboiled?) potatoes & clams
--Add some flour (to thicken) & pepper to thicken
--Add milk. Simmer soup until clams are fully cooked.
--After her peforming career (and raising her family?), Sarah cooked 2 hearty meals a day for whole circus at first (1999), after applying to circus & getting that job.
--Lunch/dinner combined. Snack (brown bag) later.
*Youth Circuses train young people in circus arts. They frequently go on as pros from there.
--Circus travelled 8 mos. a year.
--Circus truck used for cooking while on the road. (kitchen truck).
*"Uncle Ray" (Bozo) and his wife had no kids, so more or less adopted all the circus kids.
--Sarah frequently made 20 omelets a day!
--12'x12' cube was the kitchen on the road.
*Sarah's act was a balancing trapeze, jumping. 19' off ground!

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