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When the sun is high, the flowers bloom, and the baby cows roam wide, a young cook wakes compelled to make elixir. The Ancient Rite of Veal Stock begins:

Restaurant Depot makes this easy. 30 lbs of “Veal Mixted Bones” coming up…

My pot is not ready for this.

“Skim, skim, skim!” Keller says.

The now-poached bones, drained of yuckiness

Everyone’s favorite aromatics. And an obscene quantity of thyme.

Back in the pot, everyone! Tomatoes, come join us! The water’s fine!

We need smell-o-vision so that you can know how happy my apartment was with this.

Reduced!

Omitted from the photoset: several phases of straining the veal stock whilst straining with heavy pots.

Not quite as much yield as I would have liked, but I still have 15 pounds of bones. Next time: a roasted stock!