Thread: Bone Broth 101
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Old 09-05-2012, 05:23 PM   #20
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Default Re: Bone Broth 101

I only do chicken right now. We eat a chicken for dinner, pick the extra meat off afterward for another meal, then I toss the carcass in a pot, cover it with cold water and a couple tbsp of raw ACV and let it sit for a while (an hour or two?). When I start getting ready for bed I toss in my veg (I keep celery, carrot, garlic, and onion scraps in the freezer like ncsweetpea mentioned ) and some salt and pepper (maybe a tbsp of salt, 1/2-1 tsp of pepper?) and turn it up to a boil, covered.

By the time I'm ready for bed it's usually boiling so I uncover it, give it a good stir, and re-cover it, turning the temp down to a simmer. I simmer it all night (~12 hours) and then the next day I strain it into a bowl, chuck that in the fridge and the next morning skim the fat and freeze or use the broth.

One thing that I have been wondering - why do we skim the fat?

We use broth to make gravy, soups (obviously), rice, lentils, and my toddler loves it just in a straw cup as a drink! It's an awesome thing to take along in the car when she doesn't want to eat "real" breakfast! I also keep it on hand because she will eat *anything* as a soup, so if she doesn't like the dinner I made I'll pour some broth in her bowl and make whatever it is into "soup". We've reinvented many a meal for her that way.

The one time I tried doing bone broth in my slow cooker, the broth reduced down to almost nothing after 24 hours and my crock got all icky. I don't know what I did wrong... Maybe my slow cooker isn't big enough?

---------- Post added at 08:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:22 PM ----------

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Originally Posted by Stiina View Post
Oh yelch! That would be gross, too.

Cate, sounds like you're a broth pro!! I bet you'll love beef broth. We haven't eaten chicken in years...haven't found a good source for it yet. We decided we'd get our own, but I'm ensuring that DH has the portable pens made first. I'm craving some chicken. I bet the broth would be fabulous. Boil me up some chicken feet; yeehaw!!!
Chicken feet are supposed to make the BEST bone broth!!
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