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chicken stock

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Ingredients For chicken stock

  • 4 lb
    fowl
  • 1
    onion, stuck with 2 cloves
  • 2
    leeks, halved lengthwise
  • 2
    carrots
  • 1
    stalked celery, halved
  • 2 tsp
    salt
  • 6
    parsley sprigs
  • 1
    garlic clove, unpeeled
  • 1
    bay leaf

How To Make chicken stock

  • 1
    In a kettle combine the fowl, the neck and the giblets, and 12 cups cold water, bring the water to a boil, and skim the froth.
  • 2
    Add 1/2 cup cold water, bring the stock to s simmer, and skim any froth.
  • 3
    Add the onion, the leeks, the carrots, the celery, the salt, and the parsley, thyme, garlic clove, and bay leaf and simmer the stock, skimming the froth for 2 hours.
  • 4
    Remove the fowl from the kettle, remove the meat and skin from the carcass, and reserve the meat for another use.
  • 5
    Chop the carcass, return it and the skin to the kettle, and simmer stock, adding boiling water if necessary to keep ingredients barely covered, for 2 more hours.
  • 6
    Strain the stock through a fine sieve into a bowl, pressing hard on the solids, and let it cool. Chill the stock and remove the fat. The stock may be frozen.

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