Good broth resurrects the dead. - South American Proverb
Bone broth has had a resurgence into the mainstream in the last few years, and for good reason. It's an ancient food, known for fortifying our immune system, restoring the gut lining, replenishing our joints and tissues, and being rich in amino acids and minerals not easily found in our Western diet.
Namely, bone broth is rich in glycine (an amino acid), collagen, glucosamine (essential for joint health), calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur, and trace minerals. By utilizing the whole animal, we can add a spectrum of nutrients to our diets that are no longer commonly found.
For further reading on the benefits and history of bone broth, as well as some cooking tips for creating your own, check out the article, "Broth is Beautiful" from the Weston A. Price Foundation or listen to this entertaining presentation, "Bone Broth and Health: A Look at the Science", from Dr. Kaayla Daniel at the Ancestral Health Society.
How to Use Bone Broth
Broth is just the beginning! Use bone broth instead of boullion or packaged broth when called for in your favorite recipes. Create chili, soups, stews, sauces, or drink from a cup with a dash of salt for a warming tonic as the weather cools down.
Sourcing Bones
Using high quality organic, grass-fed and grass-finished beef bones is essential to creating broth. From a nutritional perspective, the animal cannot give what it doesn't have. Livestock fed an inappropriate diet will not have bones with adequate nutrition to extract for bone broth.
This is especially true if animals were exposed to glyphosate, the active ingredient in common herbicide (RoundUp) used in modern agriculture. There is evidence that livestock exposed to glyphosate (through food or water runoff) will not have an adequate amount of glycine, an essential amino acid abundant in bone broth, and the livestock will have glyphosate instead of glycine.
This is worrisome because our connective tissues and joints will accept glyphosate in the stead of glycine, as they are chemically very similar molecules. This can be very disruptive for our health, as we know human proteins contaminated with glyphosate cease to functional normally. Glyphosate is prohibited for use for USDA certified organic farms, so choosing organic keeps glyphosate out of your bone broth.
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Beef Stock
from Nourishing Traditions, p. 122
INGREDIENTS
about 4 pounds beef marrow and knuckle bones
1 calves foot, cut into pieces (optional)
3 pounds meaty rib or neck bones
4 or more quarts cold filtered water
1/2 cup vinegar
3 onions, coarsely chopped
3 carrots, coarsely chopped
3 celery sticks, coarsely chopped
several sprigs of fresh thyme, tied together
1 teaspoon dried green peppercorns, crushed
1 bunch parsely
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Bone broth is packed with nutrition, versatile, and economical. I hope you found this useful. Tag us on Instagram @stjohnsorganicfarm when you make your own bone broth!