Depression Chicken Stock

Preparation info
  • Makes

    2

    quarts
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      2 hr 30

Appears in
Cooking with the Firehouse Chef: The Food that Fuels New York’s Bravest

By Keith Young

Published 2005

  • About

This is the kind of stock your mother or grandma might have made during the Great Depression in the 1930s. I enjoy making stocks like this for soups because they use every part of the chicken. Nothing goes to waste; I think that’s very important. Normally, when you make a chicken stock, you use carrots, celery, onions, peppercorns, bay leaf, fresh herbs, and maybe even a whole chicken. To me, boiling a whole chicken and all those vegetables is a waste. First of all, you remove most of the f