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Fish Stock

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes about 3 cups

Ingredients

1 pound bones and trimmings of any white fish such as sole, flounder, orwhiting
1 onion
12 fresh parsley sprigs with long stems
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 1/2 cups cold water
1/2 cup dry white wine

Preparation

  1. Chop fish bones and trimmings and slice onion. In a well-buttered heavy saucepan cook fish bones and trimmings with onion, parsley, lemon juice, and salt, covered, over moderate heat 5 minutes. Add water and wine and bring to a boil, skimming froth. Simmer stock 20 minutes and pour through a fine sieve into a heat proof bowl. Stock may be made 3 days ahead and cooled, uncovered, before being chilled, covered. Stock keeps, frozen, 3 months.

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