Name: Fish Stock à l'Improviste Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: 8 oz Clam Juice; 1 cup Water; 1/2 cup White Wine (dry); 2 Bay Leaves

Fish Stock à l'Improviste Recipe

A very good stand-in for fish stock that would otherwise take hours to cobble together.

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Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 20 mins

Total Time 25 mins

Course Fish and Seafood Dishes

Servings cups

Ingredients

8 oz Clam Juice
1 cup Water
1/2 cup White Wine dry
2 Bay Leaves

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce right down to a simmer for 15 minutes.

Notes

The secret to this recipe is in making sure that the 1/2 cup of wine used in it isn't your last, otherwise that would defeat the purpose of the 15 minute simmer: time enough to dash out on the balcony with the remainder in the bottle for a fag and a slag before the wretched hordes arrive demanding food. Easily doubled. "Il avait le courage de deux heures après minuit; c'est-à -dire le courage de l'improviste." pace Napoleon.

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Fish Stock à l’Improviste Recipe