Re: [london.food] making stock from leftovers

[prev] [thread] [next] [lurker] [Date index for 2006/12/30]

From: Rev Simon Rumble
Subject: Re: [london.food] making stock from leftovers
Date: 05:06 on 30 Dec 2006
This one time, at band camp, Nigel Rantor wrote:

> so, I've never made stocks before and I have the bones from a leg of 
> lamb (the remainder of which is becoming a pot-luck stew as I type) and 
> I'd like to make a stock from it.
> 
> Any recipes floating out here?

No need for recipes if you aren't doing something specific.  Brown the 
bones in a hot oven for twenty minutes or so.  Stick them in a big pot 
with some celery, a roughly chopped skin-on onion and a bay leaf.  Cover 
with water and simmer for a few hours.  Skim off the crap that floats to 
the top.  Cool as rapidly as possible by filling the sink with water and 
any ice you have in the fridge, the putting the pot in it and 
occasionally shaking.

Stock's dead easy and makes all the difference in your cooking.  
Especially soups.

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <simon@xxxxxx.xxx>
www.rumble.net


"Dans ce pays ci, c'est bon, de temps en temps, de tuer
 un amiral pour encourager les autres"
- Voltaire

Generated at 00:00 on 05 Jan 2007 by mariachi 0.52