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Canard Sauvage Roti

Roasted wild duck served with watercress or lemon wedges.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and watercress work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 842 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Canard Sauvage Roti

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pluck and clean the duck thoroughly.

  2. Dry the inside of the duck well.

  3. Stuff the duck with a small bouquet of herbs.

  4. Truss the duck and skewer it.

Roast and serve

  1. Roast the duck on a spit for 20 minutes, basting with butter.

  2. Serve without sauce, alongside watercress or lemon wedges.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + watercresstop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together842 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Duck
The main protein, which firms and browns as it roasts.
Butter
Fat that enriches the flavour and helps the skin brown while basting.
Herbs
Aromatic flavour that scents the bird from inside as it roasts.

The step that matters

Basting with butter. Butter spooned over the skin carries heat and fat across the surface, which helps it brown and stops it drying out during the roast.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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