Here is a recipe for making Brown Beef Stock from scratch that's perfect for the traditional foods home cook. You can use your stock as a base for making sauces, gravies, stews, and soups, and braising vegetables. This recipe is easier than the more complicated Escoffier Technique!
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For example, with this simpler recipe, you'll brown both the marrow bones and the meat in the oven together rather than separately. This time-saving approach enables you to create a flavorful, rich stock in half the time. Best of all, your brown beef stock will still be perfect for making restaurant-quality sauces and the best base for Traditional French Onion Soup.
Plus, in today's newsletter, I talk with you about my culinary adventures with a delightful homeschool group in Central Texas.
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A Brown Beef Stock, also known as a Brown Stock, is a key ingredient chefs use to prepare rich sauces and delicious soups in upscale restaurants. Typically, these chefs follow complicated recipes that take 12 hours or more to make.
However, as a home cook, you can still create an equally flavorful brown beef stock in a shorter time and with fewer steps by following the easy culinary tips and tricks I show you in my video and printable recipe.
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You'll make your Brown Beef Stock with beef shanks and marrow bones, but don't discard any of the bones used to make your stock.
You can remove the marrow from the bones and use it as a spread on toasted baguettes. Bone marrow is a nutrient-dense food that's worth consuming. (You can also make roasted bone marrow as a separate recipe, as I show below.)
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After removing the marrow, store the bones in the refrigerator, well-wrapped, for a few days. Alternatively, store them in the freezer for up to 2 months and add them to your next batch of bone broth.
I've showed you how to make bone broth in my recipe videos, and in the following video, I'll show you different ways to use bone broth that you may not have tried yet.
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The Modern Pioneer Cookbook
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If you're looking for the master recipe for making bone broth, be sure to get my bestselling book, The Modern Pioneer Cookbook. You'll get detailed recipes for how to make traditional foods, including bone broth, cultured dairy, ferments, sourdough, and more. Discover for yourself how you can use simple ingredients and traditional techniques to cook the modern pioneer way.
If you already have my book, please leave me a book review where you bought your book or on GoodReads. Booksellers will use your five-star reviews to recommend my cookbook to others, which will help them learn about traditional foods and techniques for their home kitchens. Thanks so much!
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Thank you for Being a Sweet Friend
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Yesterday, I was delighted to give a presentation to our local homeschool group that meets at the Lake Travis Community Library.
You may recall I gave a presentation at the Lake Travis Community Library last year when my bestselling book, The Modern Pioneer Cookbook, was selected as the 2023 Lake Travis Reads selection. What an honor that was!
This time, I was invited back to give a talk to homeschool parents and their children interested in learning how to make traditional foods. (I want to give a big shout out to the Youth Services Librarian, Nicholle Halprin, who invited me to be part of her library homeschool program!)
The parents were thrilled to learn about my recently released FREE Modern Pioneer Cookbook Curriculum for grades K-12. This curriculum assists parents and educators so that they can use my cookbook as a textbook, along with the lesson plans contained in the curriculum, to teach their children how to make traditional foods and learn lifelong skills of self-sufficiency.
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Making Butter and Tasting Cultured Butter
What a fun event this was! I brought two types of butter made from cultured cream, one salted variety and the other unsalted. I also displayed two bottles of real buttermilk, showing how it looked before and after its culturing period.
Then Nicholle gave every child (and the moms, too!) a bottle filled with some cream. She instructed everyone to vigorously shake their bottles until the cream formed into a ball of butter surrounded by buttermilk.
After about 5 minutes, every child had turned their cream into butter and now know how easy it is to make real butter and REAL buttermilk! Plus, everyone got to take a taste test of their homemade butter along with the two cultured homemade kinds of butter I had brought.
Seeing the children's faces light up was so enchanting as they spread their homemade butter onto bread and took a big bite. This activity was definitely a hit! One sweet little girl even exclaimed that this was the best activity she had ever attended… "in all her life!" 😉 The homemade cultured butter was also popular, with children enjoying some straight off their plastic butter knives!
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Try Your Hand at Homemade Butter
To learn more about this fun homeschool event about traditional foods, read my "Shaking up Homemade Butter at a Homeschool Shindig in Central Texas" blog post. It also includes a link to a free "Get Started with The Modern Pioneer Cookbook Curriculum" printout you can download.
So be sure to try your hand at making homemade butter, and if you do, be sure to tag me on Instagram @marysnest . I can't wait to see your success! 😊
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Love and God Bless,
Mary ♥
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The Modern Pioneer Cookbook Curriculum
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The Modern Pioneer Cookbook Curriculum is a comprehensive set of lesson plans to teach traditional foods recipes and kitchen skills to students in grades K-12. You can use this curriculum in conjunction with the recipes and text in my bestselling book, The Modern Pioneer Cookbook. This curriculum resource is over 250 pages, and you can download it for free.
Latest Curriculum News: Chapter two's lesson plan talks about the differences between a simple broth, stock, and bone broth. You can also learn about broths, stocks, and bone broths with my video tutorial and blog post.
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Join the Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy
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If you're looking for more in-depth videos about traditional foods, I encourage you to join my Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy on YouTube. (We call members of my academy Kitchen Pioneers.) In addition to my public videos, I also publish member-only videos for my wonderful Kitchen Pioneers. 😊
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If you've not had a chance to join our Traditional Foods Kitchen Academy, please consider doing so.
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