Roast Duck

Ingredients

• Have the duck properly dressed
• lay it in salt and water for two or three hours
• with one pint of water
• one tablespoonful of minced onion
• one tablespoonful of butter
• one tablespoonful of flour

Method

1. 1

   Dress and wash the duck, make a dressing of breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, onion, and butter.

2. 2

   Cook in a baking pan with water for 1.5 hours, basting frequently.

3. 3

   Prepare gravy with flour and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ROAST DUCK. Have the duck properly dressed, lay it in salt and water for two or three hours, wash it carefully in cold water, and wipe it dry iuside and out. Make a dressing of bread crumbs or rolled cracker, very little salt, pepper, one table- spoonful of minced onion, and one table-spoonful of butter. Put the duck into the baking-pan, with one pint of water, and cook one hour and a half, basting frequently. Two or three slices of middling laid in the pan while cooking is very nice. Take up the duck, put it on a well-heated dish, add one table-spoonful of flou

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