Why is there no Bone Marrow to Scrape?

[Guest guest]

Yesterday I took all the Bones of an Organic Free Range Turkey, added

water, redmond sea salt, and cut up one lemon and squeezed all the

juice into the water. I brought it to a boil and then let it simmer

for 5 hours. When the bones cooled I broke them open and there was

nothing but hard crunchy bone like material. Some black part but not a

lot.

Does anyone know if this is suppose to be soft? Perhaps all the

marrow leached out thru the first process and there is nothing left to

scrape? I took the biggest bones to crack open and check and I did

check a couple different ones.

Just curious

Brent

[Guest guest]

Summer is the experienced one with bone broths, but I'll tell you my

experience after just 2 batches (lamb and duck).

To soften the bones themselves I think you need to boil it much

longer, at least I did, though I was not using lemon or vinegar. I

cooked it for about 8 hours one day, cooled overnight then cracked

the bones open, scraped them and then threw it all back in the port

to simmer for another 6-8 hours. The bones were then very soft and

parts of them disintegrated into the soup. The duck bones did not

have much marrow, but I scraped what I could and the joint ends and

cartilage broke down into the soup. I strained out the hard bone

chunks and slivers so my son would not swallow them. The lamb bones

had more marrow, but still not a lot. I think the minerals come as

much from the softening down of the bones as from the marrow itself

in these particular animals.

Suzanne

>

> Yesterday I took all the Bones of an Organic Free Range Turkey,

added

> water, redmond sea salt, and cut up one lemon and squeezed all the

> juice into the water. I brought it to a boil and then let it

simmer

> for 5 hours. When the bones cooled I broke them open and there

was

> nothing but hard crunchy bone like material. Some black part but

not a

> lot.

>

> Does anyone know if this is suppose to be soft? Perhaps all the

> marrow leached out thru the first process and there is nothing

left to

> scrape? I took the biggest bones to crack open and check and I

did

> check a couple different ones.

>

> Just curious

>

> Brent

>