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Wild Ducks

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Wild Ducks

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick the ducks, leaving 1 inch of skin near the head intact.

  2. Singe and draw the ducks carefully.

  3. Cut the skin along the neck to the back of the head.

  4. Remove the pouch and windpipe.

  5. Truss the ducks by tying the thighs and wings with string.

  6. Lard the breast with square-shaped slices of pork, scoring them lightly.

  7. Fasten the pork slices with string.

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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