Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 c Dry sherry 2 oz Bottle [?] onion juice
1/2 c Water 4 ea Wild ducks; cleaned
2 tb Vegetable oil Salt
1 tb Butter or margarine 4 ea Bay leaves
1/2 ts White pepper 1 lg Onion; quartered
1 1/2 ts Dried parsley flakes Orange slices; quartered
1/4 ts Red pepper

Place sherry in a heavy medium saucepan; heat just until warm (do
not boil). Remove from heat; ignite sherry, and let stand until
flames disappear. Add next 7 ingredients; heat well.
Sprinkle ducks with salt. Place 1 bay leaf and an onion quarter in
cavity of each duck; place ducks, breast side down, in a large
roaster.
Pour half of hot sherry mixture over ducks; cover and bake at 350
degrees F for 3 hours or until tender, basting occasionally with pan
drippings.
Reheat remaining sherry mixture, and pour mixture over ducks; cool.
Cover ducks, and let stand in refrigerator 1 to 2 hours or until
ready th reheat and serve, if desired.
Cut ducks in half, and return to roaster. Cover and bake at 350
degrees for 30 minutes or until hot. Place ducks on erving platter;
garnish with orange slices and fresh parsley sprigs, if desired.
Yield: 4 servings.

Note: This dish is best when prepared a day in advance. Store in
refrigerator, and reheat before serving.

_The Southern Living Cookbook_ Compiled edited by Susan Carlisle
Payne. Oxmoor House, 1987 ISBN 8487-0709-5 Typos by Jeff Pruett
Submitted By JEFF PRUETT On 10-30-95

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