Stock, the magic elixir

[Zoeliculious (Zoe)]

from Aubergine

Stock Pot: 6 or 8 quart? 3 or 5 ply?

Have you ever tried the Cecilia Chiang recipe for chicken broth? I posted it here before from her autobiography The Seventh Daughter (fantastic!) that’s now out of print. She had a beautiful restaurant in SF called The Mandarin. She died a few years ago at about age 101. Anyway, you take a good quality whole chicken (and I always add a couple of lbs of wings) add to a pot of cold water to cover, bring to a boil then discard that water and rinse off chicken well. Fill the cleaned pot with cold w…