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Recipe Tags: Weeknight Time To Make Course Main Ingredient Cuisine Preparation North American Main Dish American Oven Dietary Native American Wild Game Meat Equipment Number Of Servings 4 Hours Or Less

Roast Wild Duck With Blackberry Sauce

Taken out of the new native american cooking" book in response to a thread."

Steps

Preheat oven to 400f.
Prick skin all over duck , remove as much fat as possible on the domestic bird.
Rub wild duck with walnut oil or wrap in bacon.
Domestic duck is more greasy and does not need oil or bacon.
Stuff 1 / 2 the onions and turnip cubes into the cavity.
Season cavity with salt and pepper.
Place duck in roasting pan with about 1 / 2 inch of water on center rack in oven , breast side down.
Turn breast side up after cooked for 20 minutes and bake about 40 minutes longer , til just done.
While duck is roasting , place giblets and remaining onions and turnips in a small dutch oven or oven proof saucepan and roast in the oven with the duck til well browned , about 20 minutes.
Remove dutch oven to the stove top.
Over medium heat , deglaze the dutch oven in the stock , scraping all the bits stuck to the bottom and sides of the pan.
Add the seasonings , wine and vinegar.
Continue to cook til liqid is reduced by 1 / 3 , about 20 minutes.
Add preserves and blackberrie.

Ingredients

duck, walnut oil, salt & freshly ground black pepper, onions, turnip, juniper berries, black peppercorns, bay leaf, fresh thyme leaves, grape juice, vinegar, blackberry preserves, fresh blackberries