To Roast Wild Ducks or Teal

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. When the ducks are ready dressed, put in them a small onion, pepper, salt, and a spoonful of red wine.
  2. If the fire be good, they will roast in twenty minutes.
  3. 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.
  4. Boil it till it is wasted to half a pint.
  5. Strain it through a hair sieve and pour it on the ducks.
  6. Serve them up with onion sauce in a boat.
  7. Garnish the dish with raspings of bread.

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