OT - Recipe Bone Broths for Mineralization Re: Bone broth soups

May 13, 2008

Our Version of bone broth:

-Nourishing Traditions is excellent at this type of nutrition and it's

where I learned to cook that way. There is a Yahoo group of people who

eat/live based upon this.

" Weston Price " . You can also get the Nourishing Traditions cook book

(don't quote me here if I missed something, the recipe is down stairs)

Bone Broth:

You want to use organic, grass fed animal bones. Say chicken

You can use the whole chicken or get feet, thighs etc. Some bones are

better than others for yielding minerals and gelatin. Put it in a

large stock pot with filtered or bottled water. So it covers the

bones/meat. Add a bit of vinegar (a few tbsps I think)You can use

lemon juice if you don't have vinegar on hand, one chopped onion and 2

chopped carrots, some chopped celery. Let it sit in the water for an

hour. After that, begin to boil it. You will want to skim the scum off

the top as you go along. You ideally boil it all day long. You want

the bones to release gelatin and minerals. So low and slow all day

works well. Some boil it longer.

Once you think it's boiled enough hours, cool it down. Then pour the

broth through a strainer to remove all the bones and and veggies.

Put it in the fridge. That way the fat/scum will congeal on the top.

Skim off any scum if there is any. Save the jelly like stuff on the

top of the cold broth..you want to keep that. Very nutritious and good

for remineralizing bone. That juice is your broth. You can jar it and

freeze it. So you always have some bone broth on hand.

You can do this with chicken, or beef or fish. (we don't do fish due

to mercury)

I skip a few steps by skimming the junk as it boils, then remove the

bones/veggies by straining, then I jar up the rest. I freeze it or put

the jars in the fridge. I don't remove the gelatin because I want the

kids to eat it in the soup. If I am going to use the broth right then,

I gather up whatever veggies are in the house, at the farm market or

whatever and wash/chop them up. I add cloves of garlic, some more

onion, pepper, parsley, sea salt, brown rice or organic noodles, etc.

You get the idea..make the broth into whatever you want type of soup.

I think that's all...at least that I remember at the moment.

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