What is Stock?

Posted by: Ange on: Wednesday, January 2, 2008

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Stock is a flavoured liquid and it forms the basis of many dishes (ex: sauces & soup). Stock is prepared by simmering various ingredients in water, including some or all of the:

1. Bones (chicken, pork or beef)
2. Mirepox (combination of onion and carrots or some other vegetables)
3. Herb and Spices (ginseng roots or wolfberry)

There are 3 basic traditional soup stock in the chinese cuisine and they are:

1. Superior broth/stock (dark tan broth made from jinhua ham and chicken)
2. Chicken broth/stock (basic broth in creating most chinese soup)
3. White broth/stock (lightly blanched pork bones that have been boiled for several hours, creating a white milky broth)