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Roast Duck

A whole duck roasted and served with currant jelly or apple sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Roast Duck

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare and cook the duck as you would a roast goose.

  2. Serve with currant jelly or apple sauce.

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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What each ingredient does

Duck
Is the main protein; its rich fat and meat make up the whole dish.

“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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