Chicken broth from a few scraps

This small pot holds 24 raw chicken wing tips, 4-1/2 cups of water, 2 ribs of celery, a good sized hunk of raw onion, one raw carrot, a little salt and a few whole peppercorns.  Use whole peppercorns, they strain out at the end instead of mucking up your finished broth.

The wing tips were left over from preparing chicken wings.  This many are just the right amount for making a quart of homemade chicken broth.  Pieces of chicken I normally would have thrown out I can now turn into 1 quart of broth to be frozen - that I can pull out of the freezer at any point in the future and use in soups, stews and other recipes.  A quart of good, low sodium organic chicken broth at the grocery store fetches somewhere in the neighborhood of $3.00.  You do the math!

Simmer gently for a couple of house, strain the broth, pour into a quart sized ziplock bag and lay flat to freeze.

Bonus - candles shmandles...cook this stuff up, your kitchen will smell amazing for several hours.