Making stock

[gayla50]

making stock .. do you save bones vegetable peeling in such to make stock or do you use store

[weg]

I use store bought but I was reading a blog last night written by a waoman that makes her own.I need to quit being wasteful and make my own.

[meemo]

I make my chicken, turkey, veggie stock. I cant find beef bones. I have one more place to check but even the little meat mkts dont have bones.

[michelle]

I make chicken broth. I don't save bones for it though. I use a whole chicken and then partway through I pull out the pieces and take the meat off and then return the bones to the pot to finish making the stock.

I take the meat and portion it up and freeze it.

[Cyngbaeld]

I like to can with the bone in with the meat if the bones are small. It makes a lovely stock. For larger bones, I simmer on the stove after cutting off most of the meat to can. Then can the broth with whatever meat comes off.

[Valerie]

When I process extra roosters I make stock with their bones.

[meemo]

You can say "kill" on here. I'm sure you know that if you scrub their feet and add them to the pot its a good thing.

[Granny Smith]

I had to translate 'process' to 'kill' in my head.

I make chicken stock from chicken carcasses, but not usually from whole chickens, although I do that, too, on occasion.

I make beef stock from bones when I am raising cattle, which I haven't done in a few years and probably won't for several more (barn and fencing are gone now) Goat bones make good stock, too.

I've been wanting some good beef broth. I've been making friends with Chris the butcher at IGA. The next time I go there, I'm going to ask him if he has any bones in the back. They're not out front, so they might not even have them. I don't know.

I don't save vegetable trimmings for soup. I tried it a few times, but wasn't as happy with the results as when I use regular vegetables and leave them in the soup. I'm not saying that I'll never do it again, though. At that time, I had pigs who would eat them and give me meat in return, but I don't have pigs anymore.

[Sheila]

I always make my own stock those store bought ones have way to much sodium.

[Valerie]

LOL! OK, y'all, when I kill chickens I make stock from them. Last time I got 6 pints of soup (with meat and veg) and 6 qts of broth from 2 chickens. They weren't very meaty boys. I probably should have let them get bigger, but they were getting too feisty. I ought to keep the bones from store chickens and make stock, but for some reason I never think about it. I'm a little bit scared of them, since I don't know what they eat (but does that stop me from eating the meat?? No way!!!)

[Cyngbaeld]

Val, you should order some meat birds to raise yourself. Only takes 8 weeks till you put them in the freezer.

[Sheila]

Have never made veggie stock tried a couple of times but it seem to have no flavor have no idea what i'm doing wrong.

[Granny Smith]

Sheila, did you cook down the vegetables before you added the water? I usually brown mine a bit to add flavor and bring out the sugars in the vegies.

[Valerie]

Jun 20, 2012 14:20:07 GMT -5 Cyngbaeld said:

Val, you should order some meat birds to raise yourself. Only takes 8 weeks till you put them in the freezer.

I plan to when we get money up and can fence the yard in. Not looking forward to all that chicken killing, though. I can clean them all day, just the killing part gets me. Such a weenie, I know.

[Cyngbaeld]

LOL, that part doesn't usually bother me any more.