{"id":1691,"date":"2010-02-02T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2010-02-02T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T20:30:13","slug":"potassium-broth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"Potassium broth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/vn-potassium-broth.JPG' title='vn-potassium-broth.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/vn-potassium-broth.JPG' alt='vn-potassium-broth.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m back on the cold and snowy East Coast, I&#8217;m remembering how good it is to have an arsenal of warm drinks. How about a bit of old-fashioned broth?<\/p>\n<p>It was from Jethro Kloss, in the hippy handbook <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Back-Eden-Jethro-Kloss\/dp\/0879040009\">Back to Eden<\/a><\/em>, that I first heard about potassium broth. Kloss&#8217; version of potassium broth included oats and bran to give the broth extra body. He frequently prescribed it for people who were sick and couldn&#8217;t handle solid food. If you Google for &#8220;potassium broth,&#8221; you&#8217;ll find many versions. They all involve fresh vegetables, peels and all, simmered for four hours or so and strained.<\/p>\n<p>The broth I made today included a beet, a turnip, a couple of potatoes, some celery, onions, turnip leave stems, collard stems, and the outer leaves from a cabbage. It&#8217;s still simmering, but I think I will add some tomato paste to the broth after I&#8217;ve strained out the vegetables, to make it taste more like vegetable soup.<\/p>\n<p>It seems a waste to strain the broth and discard the vegetables, but I&#8217;ll drink the electrolytes, and my chickens will be happy to get the pulp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;m back on the cold and snowy East Coast, I&#8217;m remembering how good it is to have an arsenal of warm drinks. How about a bit of old-fashioned broth? It was from Jethro Kloss, in the hippy handbook Back to Eden, that I first heard about potassium broth. Kloss&#8217; version of potassium broth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1691\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Potassium broth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}