Beef Stock- Master Chefs
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil vegetable
- 6 pounds soup bones beef, meaty
- 2 each onions medium, trimmed, quartered, don't peel
- 2 each carrots large, peeled, trimmed, coarsely chopped
- 2 each celery stalks, trimmed,, coarsely chopped
- 1 each leeks trimmed, halved, lengthwise, coarsely, chopped, (white and, green parts)
- 4 each garlic cloves,
- 1 bunch parsley leaves stems
- 2 cups water plus more as needed
- 2 each tomatoes medium, fresh or canned, cored, coarsely chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon thyme dried, or
- 3 each thyme sprigs
- 2 each bay leaves
- 2 each cloves
- 3/4 teaspoon salt coarse
- 8 each peppercorns
- Preheat oven to 450 F.
- Put the oil in a roasting pan and heat briefly in the oven.
- Add the bones to the oil in the pan, toss to coat and roast for 35 minutes.
- Add the onions, carrots, celery, leek, garlic and parsley, tossing them all to coat with fat.
- Roast 30 minutes longer.
- Remove the pan from the oven and transfer the bones and vegetables to a clean stockpot.
- Drain off as much of the fat as possible.
- Place the roasting pan over medium-high heat (use 2 burners if necessary), and add 2 cups of cold water and boil briefly.
- Scrape up all of the browned bits into the water.
- Transfer the liquid to the stock pot and add enough cold water to cover.
- Bring slowly to a boil, skimming off all of the froth that forms.
- Lower the heat and add tomatoes, thyme, bay leaves, cloves and salt.
- Simmer uncovered for 6 to 8 hours adding water as necessary just to cover the ingredients.
- Skim whenever necessary.
- Add peppercorns for the last 15 minutes of the simmering.
- Strain the inchsoup inch into a large bowl through a colander lined with a double layer of dampened cheesecloth.
- Gently press the solids to extract all of the liquid, and discard the solids.
- Pour the stock into containers for storage and label and date them.
- The stock will inchkeep inch for up to 3 days in a refrigerator, and up to 6 months in a freezer.
- Source: New York's Master Chefs, Bon Appetit Magazine : Written by Richard Sax, Photographs by Nancy McFarland : The Knapp Press, Los Angeles, 1985
vegetable oil vegetable, beef, onions, carrots, celery stalks, leeks, garlic, parsley, water, tomatoes, thyme, thyme, bay leaves, cloves, salt coarse, peppercorns
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/beef-stock-master-chefs-42970 (may not work)