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    • Glazed Roast Duckling

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    Grains Fowl 4 Servings

    INGREDIENTS

    1 Ready to cook duckling
    1/2 Recipe bread stuffing
    1/2 c Sugar
    Few grains salt
    1 ts Cornstarch
    16 oz Can frozen orange juice concentrate; thawed

    INSTRUCTIONS

    Set oven for slow 325 degrees. Stuff duckling. Place breast side up on rack
in shallow open pan. Roast.
Meanwhile, combine sugar, salt and cornstarch. Add thawed orange juice
concentrate (do not dilute). Stir over moderate heat until slightly
thickened. An hour before the duckling is done, brush entire surface with
orange juice glaze. Repeat every 15 minutes until duckling is done.
busted by sooz
Recipe by: Key Gourmet
Posted to recipelu-digest by sooz <kirkland@gj.net> on Mar 25, 1998

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