Chicken Stock
- 4 lbs fowl
- chicken giblets, chopped
- 1 onion, stuck with 2 cloves
- 2 leeks, halved lengthwise
- 2 carrots
- 1 stalk celery, halved
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 6 parsley sprigs
- 6 fresh thyme sprigs
- 1 clove garlic, unpeeled
- 1 bay leaf
- chicken neck, chopped
- 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.
- Add 1/2 cup cold water, bring the stock to s simmer, and skim any froth.
- 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.
- Remove the fowl from the kettle, remove the meat and skin from the carcass, and reserve the meat for another use.
- 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.
- 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.
fowl, chicken giblets, onion, leeks, carrots, celery, salt, parsley sprigs, thyme, clove garlic, bay leaf, chicken neck
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chicken-stock-7689 (may not work)