A historical main dish from The White House cook book; a comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home .. (1913). Wild duck should not be dressed too soon after being killed. If the weather is cold it will be better for being kept several days. If over-done it loses flavor, thirty to forty minutes in the right kind of an oven being sufficient.
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Bake in a hot oven, letting it remain for five or ten minutes without basting to keep in the gravy
Then baste frequently with butter and water
Serve on a very hot dish, and send to table as hot as possible with a cut lemon and the following sauce
Put in a tiny saucepan a tablespoonful each of Worcestershire sauce and mushroom catsup, a little salt and cayenne pepper and the juice of half a lemon
Mix well, make it hot, remove from the fire and stir in a teaspoonful of made mustard
Pour into a hot gravy boat
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