If you put some of the bark of the holly tree into an old sauce-pan with a little water, and stew it slowly on the fire, you will get a sticky white stuff.
In a five and a half quart dutch oven or soup pot, over medium heat melt two tablespoons of butter and we always use unsalted butter in all of our cooking so we can control the salt.
We're going to pour the stock through the strainer one more time as we put it back in the stock pot to make sure we got out any stray bits, which it turns out we do have.
" They want to hunt, " agreed Gage the cook as he tossed cubes of suet in a great kettle of stew. " A wolf smells better'n any man. Like as not, they've caught the scent o' prey" .