Excerpt from Braxton's Practical Cook Book<br><br>The stock pot is the making of all good soups; that is to say if your kitchen is not provided with a stock pot it is impossible to make good soups. To prepare stock, take fresh beef bones, or bones of chicken, lamb, or any other fresh meat, crack them, put them into the pot, cover with cold water, set on the back of the stove and let it simmer all day, and if convenient, all night. The next morning strain, set in a cool place and when the grease rises, skim very carefully. Turn the stock, without any of the settlings, into the dish in which you wish to prepare the soup, and add the ingredients of whatever kind of soup you wish to prepare.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.