SC - SC Duck (mmm duck)

[Charles McCN]

Our favorite (only) duck recipe is :

Thaw, remove obvious extraneous fat.
Wash and pat dry. Rub inside with lemon juice, sprinkle with 1/2 of
ginger salt (2 T salt + 1 T ginger)

Stuff with Apricot Stuffing: Saute 1 med onion, chopped, in 4T butter
(we put this together in the wok), add 3 c. cooked bulgur and mix.  Add
1 c. dried apricots chopped (cut in at least quarters) and 1/2 c walnut
pieces.  Moisten with 1 c. chicken stock.  Heat thoroughly (5-10
mintes).  CAVEAT-- THIS QUANTITY OF STUFFING IS ENOUGH FOR 2 DUCKS.

Set up duck high in a poultry rack in roasting pan.    The type of rack
- --   _\_/_    --  where the sides there swivel and you prop them up with
a support piece that's attached?  You set it about as vertical as you
can get it.  In a deep baking dish to catch all the fat that's going to
run off.

Prick the upper skin areas, lemon juice on the outside, sprinkle with
remaining ginger salt.

Roast at 350 for 2 1/2 hrs.  Basting is NOT necessary and will ruin the
ginger-salt layer that forms on the skin.  "Serves 4-6."

This makes a yummy salt glaze, the stuffing absorbs enough fat to make
it real tasty, and most of the river of duck-fat runs off through the
pricking.  We find that a normal supermarket- size duck usually produces
around one to one and a half cups of duckfat?  over 1/4 inch deep in a
9x13 pan, so do have high-sided pans, not cookie sheets!

I can't claim more than perioid for this, tho I think it originally came
from a magazine article for a historic holiday feast, so there may be a
virtuous antecedent somewhere... anybody recognize it?  I have cooked
this in quantity, for a kingdom twelfth night (250-300?); I don't at
this moment remember if we did one or two per table-of-8.  Considering
how little meat there is on breast and drumstick, probably 2.

Chimene

patricia.r.dunham at ci.eugene.or.us
http://members.aol.com/gerekr/medieval.html (home)
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| From: mfgunter at tddeng00.fnts.com
| To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
| Subject: SC - ANST - Duck recipe
| Date: Friday, November 21, 1997 10:22AM
|
| Hey folks,
|
| I got this off the Ansteorra list. I figured we could hit them with a
| recipe or two.
|
| Gunthar
|
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|
| Greetings everyone,
|
| I realize that this question might me a little out of place here, but
I need
| some help.  I need a EASY FOOLPROOF recipe for cooking a duck.  I'd
like to
| try to cook one for thanksgiving.  I know ,but after doing turkey with
both
| sets of relitives, it gets old!!.
|
| I know we have many wonderful and skilled cooks in this kingdom,
perhaps
| someone would be willing to share a recipe???
|
| Please e-mail me privately so not to clutter up this list.
|
| Thanks
| Daffydd and Octavia
|
| Dafpig at aol.com
|
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