565. Wild Duck, with Orange Sauce

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
Source
The Modern Housewife
Time
Cook: 20 min Total: 20 min
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (6)
Instructions (11)
  1. Truss your duck as for roasting.
  2. Rub it all over with the liver until quite red.
  3. Put it down before a good fire to roast for twenty minutes.
  4. Cut eight incisions down the breast.
  5. Put an ounce of butter into a stewpan.
  6. Add a quarter of a saltspoonful of cayenne.
  7. Add the rind of an orange (free from pith, previously cut into strips, and blanched in boiling water, and well drained upon a sieve).
  8. Add the juice of a lemon.
  9. Warm all together.
  10. When melted, but not oily, pour over the duck.
  11. Serve.
Original Text
565. Wild Duck, with Orange Sauce.—Having trussed your duck as for roasting, rub it all over with the liver until quite red; then put it down before a good fire to roast for twenty minutes, after which cut eight incisions down the breast, and have ready the following preparation: put an ounce of butter into a stewpan, with a quarter of a saltspoonful of cayenne, the rind of an orange (free from pith, previously cut into strips, and blanched in boiling water, and well drained upon a sieve), and the juice of a lemon, warm all together, and when melted, but not oily, pour over the duck, and serve.
Notes
—