Bone broth can really be your best friend. It can aid in gut healing, and is super useful. Plus, you make it out leftover bones so you are getting something good with very little waste! Score, right? This is a win win win situation.

A really good broth is going to be liquid when warm… and kinda jelly when cooled. Looks different than what you’re pouring out of a can, but this is a good thing.

That gelatin comes from the collagen in the bones. This collagen is a healthy healing component and if your broth looks like jelly it means you did good. You did real good.

If it does not jelly… you still did good. Its still going to be healthful and delicious. It may have needed a little more time to extract all the goodness, it may need a touch more apple cider vinegar or (the likely culprit) perhaps a little too much water. Either way. There’s nothing to worry about. You’re rocking it

Ingredients:

• Bones
• Water
• 2 carrots
• 2 sticks of celery (especially that leafy stuff in the middle of the bunch)
• 1 onion split
• 1 tsp rosemary
• 1 tsp thyme
• Bay Leaf
• Healthy splash of apple cider vinegar

Directions

1. Add bones to pressure cooker (if you have a carcass whole you may want to break it up a bit…. *snap* *crack* *pop*)
2. Add water until bones are ‘just’ covered
3. Add veggies, herbs, and apple cider vinegar
4. Pressure cook for 3 hours
5. Allow to offgas naturally
6. Strain out all the ‘stuff’
7. Pour and portion into 2 cup containers
8. Allow to chill in fridge
9. Label
10. Put in freezer for future recipe use

Tips

• Keep a freezer bag that you put bone scraps into. When the bag fills you’re ready for a batch of broth.
• Don’t use too much water. You want those bones ‘just’ barely covered to get the maximum goodness in there. If you have a carcass you may have to break it up a bit
• Save those end bits that you cut off and discard when prepping chicken wings. Those make for some great broth.
• No measurements here because it’ll always be a touch different depending on how many bones you are working with. Measure with your heart. Let it guide you
• You can use a slow cooker, however it takes about 24 hours and your house is going to smell like broth for the whole time. You have been warned.
• You’re not going to taste the apple cider vinegar, but it will help to get the goodness from the bones.