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Mock Duck

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Mock Duck

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1 Trim and prepare the meat as for other cooking.

  2. 2 We crumb a small quantity of bread.

  3. 3 We chop half an onion.

  4. 4 We add bread to the onion in chopping-tray.

  5. 5 We add a good table-spoonful of butter.

  6. 6 We add two salt-spoonfuls of salt and one of pepper.

  7. 7 We mix together.

  8. 8 We place evenly on the meat.

  9. 9 We roll the meat like a roll of jelly-cake.

  10. 10 We make it smaller at the ends, shaping like a duck.

  11. 1 1 We sew it up, and tie it at the ends.

  12. 12 We place it in a kettle.

  13. 13 We turn in water to cover the meat two or three inches.

  14. 14 We add water as it boils away.

  15. 15 As the meat grows tender, let the water boil away and the meat brown.

  16. 16 We place on a hot platter, and turn gravy over it.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

6Calories
0 gProtein
0 gFat
2 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Emily Huntington (1841–1909). 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. See the original page.

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