To Roast Wild Ducks or Teal
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 1 small onion
- pepper
- salt
- 1 spoonful red wine
- duck necks and gizzards
- 1 spoonful red wine
- 1/2 anchovy
- 2 blade mace
- 1 onion
- cayenne pepper
- onion sauce
- bread raspings
Instructions
- When the ducks are ready dressed, put in them a small onion, pepper, salt, and a spoonful of red wine.
- If the fire be good, they will roast in twenty minutes.
- Make gravy of the necks and gizzards, a spoonful of red wine, half an anchovy, a blade or two of mace, one onion, and a little cayenne pepper.
- Boil it till it is wasted to half a pint.
- Strain it through a hair sieve and pour it on the ducks.
- Serve them up with onion sauce in a boat.
- Garnish the dish with raspings of bread.