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beef stock

beef stock

1 2.5
A rich liquid you make by cooking beef bones and vegetables slowly for soups and sauces
  • noun
  • /biːf stɑk/
: caldo de carne
  • Use beef stock as a base to enhance the taste of your favorite sauces and gravies.
  • a cup of beef stock
  • Add the beef stock
  • chicken or beef stock

So we had like potatoes, lamb on the ball and like beef stock all still like we had to cook it from scratch.

Examples

  • For a rich flavor, start your soup with homemade beef stock simmered for several hours.

  • And for the sauce, light brown sugar, hot water or chicken or beef stock, soy sauce and dark soy sauce.

  • So we had like potatoes, lamb on the ball and like beef stock all still like we had to cook it from scratch.

    The Useless Hotline Podcast

  • And then also I'm crumbling in two little beef stock cubes.

  • Then I'm also going to add a beef stock cube that I'm going to crumble some apple juice as well.

  • 1 pint beef stock

    Blog text (9)

  • and I smashed the pieces of clay in the boiling pot of beef stock... and told him it was sopa Azteca.

    Frida (2002)

  • She begins by pouring two cups of red wine and two cups of beef stock into a saucepan, then waits for the mix to simmer.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The recipe calls for adding fresh vegetables to the beef stock before simmering.

Synonyms

broth
vsbeef stock
76 1.0

A thin tasty liquid made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables in water, often used for soup

is richer and made with bones rather than being thin and simple
stock
vsbeef stock
53 1.4

A clear flavored liquid made by slowly cooking meat, bones, or vegetables

applies to one type of meat rather than to any meat
liquor
vsbeef stock
3 7.5

The liquid left after cooking meat or vegetables used for soups and sauces

is produced by simmering bones for deeper flavor rather than simple cooking liquid
beef broth
vsbeef stock
1 1.9

A clear liquid made by slowly cooking beef and vegetables in water, used for soups and sauces

uses bones to add extra richness rather than just meat
pot liquor
vsbeef stock
  • US
1 7.9

Liquid left in a pot after cooking vegetables or meat that is used as a base for soup

is made by long simmering with bones rather than leftover cooking liquid

How Flavourful

beef stock
1 2.5
broth
76 1.0

Surface Forms

beef stock singular
beef stocks plural

Morphology

beef + stock

The meaning 'a flavorful liquid made by simmering beef, bones, and vegetables' is directly and compositionally derived from 'beef' (meat from a cow) + 'stock' (a flavored liquid made by simmering bones/meat/vegetables). This follows a common noun–noun compounding pattern and has clear parallels in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.

Etymology

Beef stock comes from the idea of stock as a store or supply of food. Cooks would cook slowly beef and bones with vegetables to make a rich liquid they kept as a flavor 'base' for soups and sauces, so the name explains its use today.