Hi, I am Monica Corrado with Simply Being Well, and we are going over the ingredients now for making a beef stock. Were going to start with the beef bones. I get my beef bones from the local farmer. You can also get your beef bones from the supermarket. I get the meaty bones and the bony bones and you really need a good percentage of bony bones to make a gelatinous stock - a rich stock. I like to tell people to use about 40% meaty bones and 60% bony bones or even more; and thats about ten pounds of bones. Meaty bones as you can tell have a lot of meat around them; they also may be called marrow bones, there is marrow in the middle of the bone. Bony bones are knuckle bones and other bones that do not have a lot of meat around them. The other ingredients that you will need, is vinegar of some sort. This is apple cider vinegar. I have organic apple cider vinegar here. You may also use white vinegar. I would stay away from any kind of strong vinegar like balsamic vinegar because that will affect the taste of the stock, but apple cider vinegar would work, white vinegar would work, and you can pick these up at your local supermarket, your local grocery, your local cooperative etcetera. This ingredient here is gelatin. We may be adding gelatin to your stock at the end if it needs to be a little bit more gelatinous - and well talk more about that. This is just regular gelatin, you can get organic gelatin - you can get just regular gelatin in the store, usually in the baking isle. This is thyme; were going to be using thyme today. This is fresh thyme and you can grow it yourself; you can get it in the farmers market, you can get it in the supermarket, but fresh thyme really works best.
I dont suggest using dried thyme for this - but what thyme does is, it adds flavor to the stock and it also adds nutrients to the stock -- and thyme, especially fresh thyme has antimicrobial, antifungal, antibacterial properties, and it just adds to the healing property of the stock that you are making. Over here we have the trinity, what I call the trinity of onions, carrots and celery. These are organic onions, organic carrots, organic celery - you can get them usually in any supermarket by now. Onions; you will need three onions, three carrots and three stocks of celery for every part of stock that you do. So, those are the ingredients we need for a nutrient-rich beef stock, and I am Monica Corrado.
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