Hi C-H's - >This chowder recipe is >delicious, but it will never taste quite the same as Legal's >because you can't approximate the concentrated fish base at home. I hate this patronising codswallop! What they are saying is "we don't want you to be able to duplicate our recipe and so we have given you the wrong directions or ingredients." I could reduce the stock by vacuum distillation if I had to :-) In my opinion Legal's chowder tastes much better with a dose of powdered chile. Regards, Cameron.