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Brown Gravy for Ducks

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 4

Use giblets for added flavor.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brown Gravy for Ducks. Make a spider quite hot ; keep it on the fire ; put into it a table-spoonful of butter ; let it boil up ; throw into it a dessert-spoonful of brown sugar ; stir them together as they boil till brown ; dredge in flour sufficient to thick- en them; continue to stir; add your dripping and as much boiled water — in which, however, you should have first boiled sweet herbs, such as onion and celery — as will make enough gravy for your dish, not forgetting to add pepper, and cautiously of salt as well

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