Stock is a flavored liquid preparation. It forms the
basis of many dishes, particularly soups and sauces. Making stocks involves simmering animal bones or
meat, seafood, or vegetables in water or wine, adding mirepoix or other
aromatics for more flavor.
There are three
common kinds of stock:
1.
Meat
2.
Fish and
3.
Vegetables.
THERE ARE MANY TYPES
OF STOCK:
v White stock: A clear, pale liquid made by
simmering poultry, beef, or fish bones.
v Brown stock: An amber liquid made by first
browning/roasting poultry, beef, veal, or game bones.
v Fumet: A highly flavored stock made with fish
bones.
v Court bouillon: An aromatic vegetable broth.
Meat stock
use the bone of meat and poultry and small pieces of meat that are not needed for cooking including the neck, leg and gizzard of poultry. These ingredients should be fresh. Break up the bones and cut up the meat to expose as much surface as possible in order to draw out the goodness.
use the bone of meat and poultry and small pieces of meat that are not needed for cooking including the neck, leg and gizzard of poultry. These ingredients should be fresh. Break up the bones and cut up the meat to expose as much surface as possible in order to draw out the goodness.
Cover with water, add a little salt
, bring to boiling point and skim. Leave to simmer slowly until the bones
become soft and most of the nutrient is in the water. This stock is called fist
stock and it is rich in flavor. The
bones can be reboiled for second stock. Whatever nutrient remains will be
extracted.
It is not so rich in
either flavor or food value.
Stock made from white meat, e.g.
chicken and fish, is called white stock and should be used for soups and sauces
for which a pale color is required. Brown stock is made from drak meat, e.g.
beef, and also from bones.
CHICKEN MEAT STOCK
Meat
stock is vital to healing the damaged gut, sealing the microbiome for
foundation rebuilding. Cooking bone broth, instead of meat stock, will prolong
your healing time if have advanced pathogenic gut damage.According to GAPS
founder, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride chicken meat stock is one of the most
gentle options for a sensitive system. She says, “Chicken stock is particularly
gentle on the stomach and is very good to start with. The gelatinous soft
tissues around the bones and the bone marrow provide some of the best healing
remedies for the gut lining and the immune system; your patient needs to
consume them with every meal,”
If the
digestive system is greatly damaged the client needs the cleanest source of
chicken. The best choice is a chicken raised on grass, bugs and worms free
ranging in an open yard. If that option is not available sourcing an organic
chicken, which has “access to the outdoors” and has been fed organic feed is
the next best option. Organic chickens are usually fed organic grains, even
though chickens are omnivore foragers. Using Organic Chicken from Costco is a
good source.
It is
vital to choose a chicken that has not been given antibiotics because if you’re
eating a chicken that has eaten antibiotics you’re eating antibiotics. Eating a
chicken that says, “contains up to 17% of a solution of water, less than
2% soultion of…” is injected with water so that the chicken weighs more
allowing for more profit by the pound. The less than 2% solution is often
potato starch, maltodextrin (which is usually derived from GMO corn), autolyzed
yeast extract, torula yeast, caramelized sugar, citric acid, cream of tartar,
expeller pressed canola oil, flavors, food starch, rice flour, sugar or yeast
extract -all of which feed pathogens in the gut. Chickens that contain these
ingredients should not be used.
Cutting the chicken up is not vital to healing but assists in
adding more nutrient healing enzymes to the tract. Sometimes, while on GAPS, a
mom needs to choose what she does in the kitchen do to time. If this is the
case cutting the chicken is not mandatory for healing, however it is highly
beneficial. Cut the chicken at the joints with a sharp knife or kitchen
scissors. This can be done easily by
pulling the leg or wing out and breaking it back, showing you the joint.
Do this for each leg and each wing, at each joint. Opening
the joints allow better accessibility to the vital nutrition contained in the
joints and connective tissues. Meat stock made from chicken is high in the
amino acids proline and glycine, bioten, collagen, elastin, glucosamine
and gelatin. These are the elements that feed the enterocytes, the building
blocks of the gut lining.
Cutting the bones half way through the leg opens access to
the marrow. Cut the bird down the breast bone and back bone. This step is not
vital but it opens up the availability to further nutrition. Place the chicken
pieces in a stainless steel pot,
placing them tight around each other like a puzzle to fit the pot. If possible
have all the chicken pieces cover one layer so the stock is not diluted with
too much water. Cover the chicken with filtered water one finger width above
the meat. If you have chicken feet and/or heads adding them to the stock will
greatly increase the healing aspects. This is a hard fact to swallow and
grosses many people out – don’t worry about it just do what you can.
Add 1 tablespoon of mineral salt, 2-3 bay leaves, crushed
peppercorns and 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar, with the mother. Allow the pot to rest
for 20-30 minutes. Turn the heat on high and bring to a rolling boil. Just before
the boil scoop off the foam that has risen to the top. Scooping the foam
scoobage will give you a noticeably better tasting stock, some say this is the
bones cleaning themselves. By the time you finish skimming the pot should be at
a rolling boil.
Cover and turn the heat down to a low simmer, with slight
bubble activity for 1.5-2 hours. If you do not cover the pot the stock will
evaporate and you will lose a great portion of your stock. After cooking remove
the chicken, bay leaves and scoop out the pepper corns (which are difficult to
digest). Allow the chicken to cool for a few minutes, then remove the
skin and add it back to the stock pot. With a stick blender
mix the skin into the stock until fully combined. This aspect will add valuable
nutrition to the stock, it will also make the stock taste more like a cream
soup. “We need all of the natural fats in natural foods, and saturated and
monounsaturated fats need to be the largest part of our fat intake,” Dr.
Natasha Campbell-McBride says
She
further says, “Do not take fat out of the stock, it is important for your GAPS
patient to consume the fat together with the stock.”
Once
the skin is blended back in you can ladle your hot stock into mason jars, the
size of your choice, and immediately put on the lids. As the jars cool they
will pop down sealing themselves slightly. This type of sealing will not make
your stock shelf stable but will allow it to remain in the refrigerator a bit
longer. The length of time your stock is good in the refrigerator depends on
the person and the depth of gut damage they have. The most severe cases need to
be consuming the freshest meat stock possible, sometimes in the refrigerator
for only two days. These people generally say they have problems with histamine
foods.
Meat
stock will naturally feed the mines in the tract, including the anime histamine which releases histamine. If you are having histamine issues McBride
says it is important to consume many small cups of stock throughout the day, much
like you would drink a glass of tea. If histamine issues are a problem do not
reheat the soup for a very long time as it cooks out the healing enzymes that
calm the mast cells that cause the histamine issue.
The
average healing gut will tolerate stock that has been kept in the refrigerator
a week. Someone with light gut damage can handle stock that has been in the
freezer for two weeks. Stock in freezer safe mason jars, filled 3/4 full,
freezes well. The breakage potential of mason jars in the freezer is high for
many people. For this reason it is wise to allow your jars to cool in the
refrigerator then transfer it to another container that is freezer safe.
Freezing in zip top bags is ok as BPAs have been reported to leach in acid
conditions as well as conditions where heat is present. Cooled stock has not
been tested in any published reports showing the content of either and the
potential BPA content.
Once
you have your stock in jars it is easy to pull a jar out of the refrigerator,
add your desired meat and vegetables and enjoy!
Remove
the meat from the carcass while the carcass is still warm is best. Some people
add all the chicken meat back into the stock pot for chicken soup, others save
half of it and use it for other dishes so the soup is not so chicken
heavy.
For
GAPS stage 1 or 2 add chopped carrots (if tolerated) onion, garlic and peas.
Cook for 25 minutes until the vegetables are soft. Add in the chicken meat and
enjoy! Chicken stock is the most used base for soups. The possibilities for
soup options are endless.
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