Citrus Duck

Please do not be frightened by the long list of ingredients or the length of the instructions. Spread the work over two days and all you will have to do is bake the ducks and blend all the elements of the sauce before dinner.

The mixture of citrus fruit in this recipe duplicates very closely the taste of the true Bigarade orange. The bitter-sour Bigarade, which up to fifty years ago grew wild in many Mediterranean gardens, is slowly disappearing. Although our Seville orange is one o