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Boiled Duck

A whole duck boiled with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Boiled Duck

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Salt the duck thoroughly, just as you would for any other dish.

  2. Boil the duck in water until fully cooked.

  3. Serve with your choice of 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; boiling cooks it through until tender and fully done.

“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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