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- From: mcvl@decwrl (Mary-Claire van Leunen)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Chicken stock
- Date: 21 Feb 86 05:10:20 GMT
- Organization: DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto CA
- Approved: reid@glacier.ARPA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CHICKEN-BROTH SP "2 Feb 86" 1986
- .RZ "CHICKEN BROTH" "Rich homemade chicken broth"
- Surely people who make use of bouillon cubes have no idea how easy home-made
- broth can be. This is not a traditional method, but it produces good
- results.
- .IH "makes 16 cups" "makes 4 liters"
- .IG "1" "stewing chicken"
- (or 2 broilers and a stick of butter)
- .IG "16 cups" "water" "4 l"
- .IG "1" "large yellow onion"
- .IG "1" "bay leaf"
- .IG "1 bunch" "parsley"
- .IG "1 bunch" "fresh thyme"
- (or a teaball with
- .AB "\(12 tsp" "3 ml"
- dried thyme inside)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Take one large, heavy, lidded pan\(emmine is a six-quart enamelled
- cast-iron Copco pan with twenty years' good cooking already logged, and
- I live in terror that yuppie burglars will break into my house some
- night and steal it.
- Put into it one fat old chicken. If you live in a part of the world
- where there are no fat old chickens for sale, put in two scrawny young
- chickens and a stick of butter.
- .SK 2
- Put the pan in a cold oven, turn the temperature to
- .TE 325 160
- and wait patiently, doing nothing whatsoever to the chicken, for about four
- hours, till it's dark golden.
- .SK 3
- Take the pot out of the oven and let it cool to room temperature.
- Strip the meat off the bones. Cover everything, meat and bones, with
- .AB "a gallon" "4 liters"
- of water at room temperature. Add a raw onion, peeled and
- quartered, a bay leaf, a bunch of parsley tied together with string,
- and a small bunch of thyme similarly tied or a teaball with
- dried thyme leaves in it. Bring the water up to a simmer
- and let it just simmer (make a mirror, as the French say) for ten
- minutes. Turn it off and return it to room temperature again.
- .SK 4
- Take the meat out. It is not as good as it was before the wee simmer,
- but perfectly satisfactory for chicken salad or on waffles with creamed
- chicken or whatever. Waste not want not.
- .SK 5
- Add another quart of water, bring the broth back up to a simmer and
- simmer it for twenty minutes. Strain out the bones and vegetables.
- You should have about
- .AB "four quarts" "four liters" .
- .NX
- I've never had good luck freezing
- broth (it starts to taste thinnish), so this is as much as I ever make
- at once. I keep it in the refrigerator in
- .AB "quart Mason jars" "liter-size canning jars" .
- I've read that you should simmer saved broth for twenty minutes every four or
- five days, but it never lasts that long in my house, so I can't comment.
- .PP
- I use a cup wherever a recipe calls for a cup of chicken broth. And
- then, after it's been around for a day or two, somebody suggests we
- really haven't had chicken soup with rice for a long, long time ... or
- matzoh dumplings ... or tortellini in brodo ... and then it's all gone.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- about 6 hours, most of it waiting.
- .I Precision:
- no need to measure.
- .WR
- Mary-Claire van Leunen
- Digital Equipment Corporation, Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
- mcvl@decsrc.ARPA or decwrl!mcvl
-