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Stock-pot

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Stock-pot

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Keep a pot on the stove filled with water.

  2. Add all meat scraps and bones to the pot.

  3. Let it simmer gently whenever the stove is clear.

  4. Replenish the pot every day or two.

  5. To keep stock fresh, leave the fat on top to exclude air.

  6. If stock becomes sour, add a little bicarbonate of soda and boil quickly; skim well.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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