To boil Ducks with Onion Sauce

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 20 min Total: 20 min
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (5)
main
sauce
Instructions (10)
  1. Scald and draw your ducks.
  2. Put them in warm water for a few minutes.
  3. Take them out, put them in an earthen pot.
  4. Pour over them a pint of boiling milk.
  5. Let them lie in it two or three hours.
  6. When you take them out, dredge them well with flour.
  7. Put them in a copper of cold water.
  8. Put on your cover.
  9. Let them boil slowly twenty minutes.
  10. Take them out, and smother them with onion sauce.
Original Text
To boil Ducks with Onion Sauce. SCALD and draw your ducks, put them in warm water for a few minutes, then take them out, put them in an earthen pot, pour over them a pint of boiling milk, let them lie in it two or three hours; when you take them out dredge them well with flour, put them in a copper of cold water, put on your cover, let them boil slowly twenty minutes, then take them out, and smother them with onion sauce.
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