Name: Manx salt duck with onion sauce
Yield: To Serve Four
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1 duck; 850 ml (1½ pints) stock, made with duck giblets or stock cube and water; 275 ml (½ pint) stock from cooking the duck giblets; freshly ground pepper; 450 g (1 lb) onions, peeled and chopped; freshly ground pepper (no more salt); 150 ml (¼ pint) single cream; 1 beer-glass cider; pinch grated nutmeg; 25 g (1 oz) flour; 25 g (1 oz) butter; fine sea salt; 1 sliced onion; ½ teaspoon saltpetre (obtainable from the chemist); salt if needed

Preparation info

To Serve
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

British Cooking

By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

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Ingredients

850 ml (1½ pints) stock, made with duck giblets or stock cube and water
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Method

This must be started a day in advance. The flesh of a salt duck is particularly succulent and well-flavoured.

Remove the duck giblets and use them to make the stock. Sprinkle a deep earthenware dish liberally with salt. Put a small handful of salt inside the duck, place it in the dish and sprinkle with more salt and the saltpetre on top. Leave for 24 hours, turning once or twice. The fo

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