Abundant Pastures Ranch (Recipes)
Old Fashioned Beef Stock 

   You'll never buy packaged stock again!Whether you're making French Onion soup, beef and barley soup, or just adding flavor to stews, stroganoff, spaghetti, or any number of dishes, you'll want to have plenty of beef stock frozen and available for quick and easy meals.Not only is grass fed beef stock delicious and versatile it gives you great health benefits as well. It can help ease arthritis, heal broken bones, aid digestion, and support the immune system.A little apple cider vinegar in the broth helps to leach the important minerals out of the bones and makes them available to you to help make your bones and joints strong.Save left over milk cartons and half and half cartons to freeze stock in, they work perfectly.Here is our recipe for old fashioned grass fed beef bone broth:
Hearty Beef Stock 
Name:Hearty Beef Stock
Description:Nothing beats home made bone broth, whether it is from beef, chicken, turkey, or others.
Ingredients:
  • 3 - 4 pounds Abundant Pastures Ranch 100% grass fed beef soup bones
  • 3 - 6 whole celery stocks
  • 1 - 2 whole onions peeled
  • Water to fill stock pot
  • 1/4 Cup Apple Cider Vinegar
  • Salt and pepper to taste (use sea salt for better flavor and electrolytes)
  • 1 - 2 Tsp celery seed (optional)
  • Onion powder to taste (optional)

You will need a large stock pot for the broth and you will need a pan to roast the bones either in the oven or on the stove top.
Directions:
  • Roast, in covered roasting pan, 3 - 4 pounds of Abundant Pastures Ranch 100% Grass Fed Beef soup bones in the oven at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes to an hour
  • Cook the bones long enough so that the meat on them is done (You can also cook the bones in a pan, on the stove top if desired)
  • Fill a large stock - pot with water up to ¾ full, and bring to a boil
  • Place cooked bones, onions and celery stocks in the boiling water
  • Season to taste. (Use sea salt for better flavor and nutrition)
  • Turn to simmer, let simmer for 2 - 3 hours. (You can let it simmer longer if desired)
  • After desired time simmering, remove bones, onions, and celery and…
  • Enjoy!!!

Strip the meat off of the bones and either put the pieces of meat back in the stock or not, according to your preference.