Authentic Scrap Stock

[Barrycdog]

Old Pioneer Recipes
Scrap Stock
8 cups miscellaneous vegetable scraps: carrot tops, onions peels and ends, pea pods, ends ans strings from string beans, stem ends of squash and pumpkins, stem ends or tomatoes, trimmings and seeds from peppers, apple and pear cores or peelings AND 1 head garlic, unpeeled, 1 onion, water to cover, 1 tsp salt per quart of water used.
Put all ingredients into pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer, uncovered, for about an hour. Strain, throw out vegetable scraps, and use as soup immediately or save for use in cooking other dishes later.

 

[Allie]

Old Pioneer Recipes
Scrap Stock
8 cups miscellaneous vegetable scraps: carrot tops, onions peels and ends, pea pods, ends ans strings from string beans, stem ends of squash and pumpkins, stem ends or tomatoes, trimmings and seeds from peppers, apple and pear cores or peelings AND 1 head garlic, unpeeled, 1 onion, water to cover, 1 tsp salt per quart of water used.
Put all ingredients into pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer, uncovered, for about an hour. Strain, throw out vegetable scraps, and use as soup immediately or save for use in cooking other dishes later.

I just put my scraps in a big plastic bag in the freezer. When it gets full, new pot of stock. If you add chicken bones (whole chicken picked clean for salad or the like) it becomes chicken stock. Tie the bones up in cheesecloth first and they are much easier to remove.

 

[MRB1863]

After a turkey dinner and picking the meat from the frame, we put the bones in a large pot, boil them clean of meat. Then add vegetables (can be leftovers too), onion, garlic and cook 'til veggies are tender, add noodles or rice. Finish cooking and enjoy. Hearty and yummy.

 

[donna]

A good recipe to make at a reenactment. Just the basics but nourishing.