Preparing Brown Stocks

Appears in
Professional Cooking: 10th Edition

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2025

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The difference between brown stocks and white stocks is that the bones and mirepoix are browned for the brown stock. This causes a few complications, as you will see. Otherwise, the procedure is essentially the same.
A second method for browning the mirepoix is given in the alternative procedure.