does 10 cups of broth mean 10 cups of water with 10 boullion cubes?

[oregonwoodsmoke]

I don't know what the recipe is but I would be inclined to take my 10 cups of water and put in the neck, back, and fat of the chickens I intended to use and I'd add an onion and some sliced celery and a bit of parsley and I'd slow simmer that for a couple of hours with the lid on.



Then I would use that in my recipe instead of bouillon cubes. 10 bouillon cubes is an awful lot of salt.



10 cups of water, you will be using more than one chicken, right?

[don6170]

Originally Posted by saibot

.it's actually called "Better than Bouillon."

Yes, that what my brain said to type, but my fingers had other ideas.

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by don6170

Yes, that what my brain said to type, but my fingers had other ideas.

"More Than Gourmet" is an order of magnitude better than "Better Than Bullion". You can usually buy 16 oz tubs of it on Amazon.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by George Chong

Chicken bullion cubes typically have a lot of salt so be careful in using so many cubes.

I am the first to admit I am addicted to my salt and I still thought the same as you: just sounds like a lot. If it were me and I didn't make my own stock or broth I think I would opt for canned.

[Delahanty]

Setting aside the "broth vs. bouillon" argument, ten cups of water with the stipulated amount of bouillon added is not going to be any saltier per serving than if you made two cups of it.

[saibot]

Originally Posted by Delahanty

Setting aside the "broth vs. bouillon" argument, ten cups of water with the stipulated amount of bouillon added is not going to be any saltier per serving than if you made two cups of it.

Yes, it's not like one person is going to be eating ten cups of broth...is it? The amount of salt per serving will be the same whether you make two cups with two cubes, or ten cups with ten cubes.

Ten cups of water with only two or three bouillon cubes is going to be basically water.

[Dogboa]

When I make something that calls for broth, that we can't make or buy, I use soup base. Lobster, shrimp, pork, mushroom and seafood are some of them.

[cb at sea]

Agree...just buy some broth....

If you want a bit of extra flavor, there are sodium free powdered packets (Herb Ox), green box...says "Sodium Free" for CHICKEN...haven't seen that in the Beef flavor.