Hi All,
Bone broth along with chicken soup seem to be all the rage in the United States with shops opening in New York and California and many companies selling broth and bones online. According to an article in the Daily Mail online from July 2016, this summer, a New York city restaurant is even selling bone broth ‘ice lollies’!
Basically, it is homemade meat, poultry or fish stock. In fact, broth is one of the oldest recipes in existence. In ancient kitchens, when there were only hearths to cook on and bones and scraps of meat to throw in the pot, cooks simmered them in water all day to extract what they could from the animal carcass.
In fact, the word “restaurant” comes from the French “restorer” (to restore). This originated in the 18th-century when eateries sold highly concentrated ‘elixirs’, i.e. bone stock soups, to Parisians to restore their health.
Some of the purported benefits of broth include:
However, although there is no proven science behind the majority of the benefits of bone broth per se, some scientists believe that there is actually some truth in the old wives tale that chicken soup can help to aid recovery when you have a cold or a flu. Whatever the science says though, the broth craze is leading us back to the kitchen and back to basics. More importantly, it is cheap and it is cutting out food waste as all the out of date veg can go in the stockpot…
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