{"id":8084,"date":"2011-12-07T02:52:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T10:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nourishedkitchen.com\/?p=8084"},"modified":"2024-09-17T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T19:21:54","slug":"perpetual-soup-the-easiest-bone-broth-youll-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nourishedkitchen.com\/perpetual-soup-the-easiest-bone-broth-youll-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Cooker Bone Broth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bone broth is a staple of my family's diet.\u00a0 As with healthy fats, heirloom vegetables, grass-fed meat, weconsume a lot of bone broths - usually aiming for one quart per person per day, at the recommendation of our nutritionist.\u00a0 Broth, you see, is a nutritional powerhouse.\u00a0 It is extraordinarily rich in easy-to-assimilate minerals, amino acids and goodies like glucosamine chondroitin.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, you did read that right: we do aim for one quart per adult per day<\/em> (the little one of the household gets at least a pint).  That's a lot of broth.  Let me do the math for you.  That's between two and three quarts per day, averaging to about four and a half gallons<\/em> of broth each week for our family.  Yes, as you might imagine, soups and stews are a big part of our day, more so in the winter than in the summer.  When I serve breakfast, I serve it with a mug of broth and another mug of broth sits at my desk as I work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It's a beautiful thing, really, and I credit good broth, cod liver oil and of fermented foods with the resilient immunity my family enjoys each flu season.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how do we make enough broth?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So if you're wondering just how I manage working at home full time, homeschooling our 6-year old with making four and a half gallons of bone broth each week, I'll tell you.\u00a0 I slow cook it.\u00a0 I call it perpetual soup.\u00a0 You see, my six-quart slowcooker is my cauldron.\u00a0 That is, it is always on - bubbling away and ready to nourish my family with the bounty of the bones that stew away every hours of every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once a week, I place the frame of a roast chicken<\/a> into the slow cooker, cover it with filtered water (We use a Berkey to filter our water, and you can, toss in a few bay leaves, black peppercorns and vegetable scraps, turn it on and call it good.\u00a0 As I pull broth from the slow cooker, I filter it through a fine-mesh strainer which helps to remove out any floating herbs, chicken skin or pieces of bone and results in a beautiful clear broth.\u00a0 As I remove broth, I add water and continue the process throughout the week - ensuring that by the end of the week every bit of goodness has been pulled from that chicken frame.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Slow Cooker Bone Broth Recipe<\/h2>\n
This perpetual soup is an easy bone broth you can make in the slow cooker.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Prep Time<\/span>5 minutes<\/span><\/span> mins<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Cook Time<\/span>12 hours<\/span><\/span> hrs<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Total Time<\/span>12 hours<\/span><\/span> hrs<\/span> 5 minutes<\/span><\/span> mins<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n
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