chicken stock

How To Make chicken stock

• Step 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.
• Step 2
  Add 1/2 cup cold water, bring the stock to s simmer, and skim any froth.
• Step 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.
• Step 4
  Remove the fowl from the kettle, remove the meat and skin from the carcass, and reserve the meat for another use.
• Step 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.
• Step 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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