Chicken Stock Recipe with How To Instructions Chicken stock from scratch is one of the most under-rated, and under appreciated beauties in cooking. This winter I have been making lots of soups and they all seem to require some form of soup stock. Then I got kinda cheap, and thought...man, 4 bucks for some chicken flavored water... So I began making my own. Then I started canning it too. I have utilized a pressure cooker to make this a quicker process, but you can do it with traditional methods as well. I have included timing notes below for alternative methods. ...