Ingredients

Give Up the Grit

Fresh clams can be gritty; soak them in water with cornmeal to help purge any grit inside the shell. Make sure that you add some salt to the water (clams are, after all, saltwater animals). Use about 1/3 of a cup of salt in a gallon of cool water. You don't need much cornmeal – two tablespoons or so. The clams will feed on the cornmeal and expel the grit and such that are inside the shells.