Name: Roast Duck with Cucumbers
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: a pair of ducks; pepper and salt; ½ lb. (240 g.) Patna rice; 2 large onions, peeled and sliced; 3 cucumbers; 1 oz. (30 g.) butter into which 1 oz. (30 g.) flour has been worked; ¼ pint (1½ dl.) claret; 3 oz. (90 g.) butter; 1 tablespoon chopped parsley

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Cookery of England

By Elisabeth Ayrton

Published 1975

About

This is adapted from Mrs Glasse’s ‘To dress a Duck with Cucumbers’, 1747.

Ingredients

a pair of ducks
3 cucumbers
2 large onions, peeled and sliced

Method

First peel the cucumbers, cut in halves lengthways, remove pips and cut the remainder into ½-inch (1-cm.) cubes. Mix them with the onions, pour the claret over and leave them to marinate for 2 hours.

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