White Chicken Stock

Chop the vegetables in 1-inch pieces (halfway in size between fish and veal/beef), since the poultry stocks cook for only 2 hours, and the vegetables must cook and fall apart in that time.

For a clear stock, bring the liquid to a boil quickly, but be there when it first boils, because you have to immediately turn it down to a mere simmer. That initial boiling will release albumin and blood,