Tips on Making Bone Broth from an Adelaide Hills Homesteader
I spoke with Adelaide Hills Homesteader, friend and grass-fed beef customer about how she uses beef bones to make a beautiful wobbly and gelatinous bone broth to add to meals and nourish her family.
Half.time.homsteader is a Mum of two, wife, works part-time in the city, involved in her kids school and her passion is growing her own food and preserving it too.
After her she and her husband spent time living on a family members farm in the UK in their 20’s, they found a love for country life.
When they returned to Australia they dreamt of growing their own food like they had loved to do in the UK. As well as perferring to know how their food was grown, to avoid processed foods with additives, which had caused inflammation.
After quite a bit of hunting, they settled on a beautiful little nook of the Adelaide Hills. They built their own home, build a thriving vegetable garden, orchard, added chooks and over time two beautiful children joined their family. Their open and airey home over looks a beautiful wetland and they are surrounded by native bush immersed in nature.
Beef Bone Broth
Ingredients
- Large bag of Beef Bones
- 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
- 2 carrots, cut in large chunks
- 1 onion, peeled and quartered
- 1 leek, remove end and cut in large chunks
- 1 apple, cored and quartered
- 3 stalks of celery
- 2 bay leaves
- Fresh parsley, rosemary and thyme
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees.
- Place all bones in a baking tray and bake until golden. Baking the bones helps to release minerals and softens the marrow in the bones.
- Place baked bones into a large stock pot. Add Apple Cider Vinegar. Add vegetables and herbs.
- Cover with water. Simmer for at least 6 hours. Longer if possible.
- Keep checking level of liquid in the pot. Add more water over time to keep the bones and vegetables covered.
- Strain bone broth through a double sieve. When cool, place into containers of approximately 250ml and freeze.
Notes
See our blog for more tips from half.time.homesteader on making beef bone broth at home.
Tips on making your own Beef Bone Broth
Here are your tips from half.time.homesteader on making a nourishing beef bone broth for your family.
It is a good sign if your beef bone broth jiggles, when it is cooled. This shows that lots of the gelatinous benefits of the grass fed beef bones have been extracted and are contained within you bone broth.
Keep a “stock bits bag” ongoing in the freezer. Overtime freeze celery extra bits, bent garden carrots, too many spring onions from the garden, onion tops etc. Then you have the vegetables ready to put into your next beef bone broth pot. Instead of purchasing veggies to go into your broth pot.
You can cook your bone broth in the slow cooker, in smaller batches (or if you have a supersized slow cooker!)
Recipe Ideas
Half.time.homesteader uses her beef bone broth in recipes for her family. Here are some of her family favourite suggestions:
Slow cooked casserole with diced beef, beef bone broth, root vegetables and tomatoes.
Goulash with beef and beautiful beef bone broth, made with grass fed beef bones from our farm.
Beef stroganoff with diced beef, beef bone brtoh and mushrooms along with home made fettuccine.
Cooking from Scratch
Half.time.homesteader prefers to use her own beef bone broth over a store bought can or tin of stock, as she know what is going into it.
She tells me her homegrown veggies have to be better than veggies bought from large stores.
She knows what is in the food that she has grown from seed, with her own hands and in her own homestead garden.
She also tells me she loves feeding her family grass fed beef that comes from a local farm.
Grass Fed Beef Bones
Grass Fed Beef Bones from our farm Peppermint Ridge Farm Co are included in all our Beef Boxes. Beef Bones are also for sale at our Adelaide Hills Farmers Market and Adelaide Showgrounds Farmers Market stalls. Click here to visit our online store to shop now.
Organic Garlic Farm Coming Soon
The Half.time.homesteader has recently started a new project.
An organic garlic farm on their property.
With a dream of supplying local Adelaide Hills residents with locally grown organic garlic. I hear the first crop is expected in December. I look forward to purchasing local Adelaide Hills to include in our Christmas cooking, roast beef and lamb as well as summer salad dressings this year.
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I would love to hear about the beef bone broth that you are making with the grass fed beef bones from our farm. Email me here with your updates.
Love to you all, Misses Farmer X
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