Recipe by Kristen Sullivan

This recipe was served by Kristen Sullivan at the Marche of the Unicorn's Newcomer's Feast in the fall of 2006.

• 1 duck (2-3 lbs.), de-boned and cut into pieces
• 3-4 medium onions
• 1/4 cup verjuice
• 1/4 tsp. pepper
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/8 tsp. cloves
• 1/8 tsp. mace
• 1/4 tsp. thyme
• 2 Tbsp. butter
• 1 tsp. chopped parsley

Grind onions with a mortar and pestle (or in a food processor), add verjuice, and strain out the solids, reserving the liquid.

In a large bowl, mix duck, salt, pepper, cloves, mace, and the onion/verjuice liquid. Place mixture into pie crusts and sprinkle with parsley and thyme. Cover with top crust and bake at 350°F until done (about an hour).

Source [The Good Housewife's Jewell, T. Dawson]: To bake a Mallard. Take three or foure Onyons, and stampe them in a morter, then straine them with a saucer full of vergice, then take your mallard and put him into the iuyce of the sayde onyons, and season him with pepper, and salte, cloves and mace, then put your Mallard into the coffin with the saide juyce of the onyons, and a good quantity of Winter-savorye, a little tyme, and perselye chopped small, and sweete Butter, so close it up and bake it.

© Copyright 2009 Kristen Sullivan