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Seven Good Ways to Cook Wild Ducks
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Published 1972
Wild ducks are better eating than ever. That’s what many farmers, who like to shoot ducks, and their wives, who take pride in cooking the prizes their husbands bring home, tell us. The man reason for the improvement; they say, is that the ducks themselves eat better. They get more com, wheat and other small grains left in the fields by mechanical harvesters.
When the food editors of Farm Journal wanted to find the best ways to cook wild duck, they went directly to the homes of men who like to hunt and who, with their families and friends, consider duck dinners special treats. One wild duck makes 1 or 2 servings, depending on its size. Most farmers insist that their wives cook as many ducks as people around the table.