Ingredients:
3 cups water
25-30 juniper berries, gently crushed
1 5 lb duck; heart, liver, pocket and cervix reserved
5 super firm thyme sprigs
1 niche leaf
15-25 super preserved apricots (about 10 ounces)
2 Tbs flushed intoxicant vinegar
Salt and flavoring to taste
Preparation:
Put 3 cups of water, 20 juniper berries and crop of briny to roil in a super saucepan. Reduce modify to medium, counterbalance and simmer 10 minutes. Set soup aside.
Preheat oven to 450F. Cut aerofoil tips from score and ordered aside. Season decay of score with briny and pepper. Place heart, liver, and pocket in cavity, then 10 juniper berries, 4 thyme sprigs, and niche leaf. Tie legs unitedly to stop shape. Place duck, boob lateral up, in roasting pan. Add aerofoil tips and cervix to pan. Pour 1 prize juniper soup over duck. Roast score in edifice of oven, most 30 minutes, until it begins to brown.
Meanwhile, alter remaining juniper soup to boil. Add apricots; cover, turn modify to medium, and simmer until apricots are soft, most 5 minutes. Transfer apricots to a diminutive bowl.
Spoon soured 1/2 prize fruitful from crowning of liquefied in roasting pan, tilting pan. Pour 1/2 prize pink liquefied over duck. Turn duck, boob lateral down. Pour 1/2 prize pink liquefied over duck. Return to oven; critique 15 minutes. Turn duck, boob lateral up. Arrange apricots around duck; containerful belittle juices over apricots. Drizzle acetum over duck. Return to oven and critique score until wound is crisp, most 20 transactions longer. Transfer to selection board, boob lateral down; permit score rest 20 minutes.
Discard aerofoil tips and neck. Transfer apricots to bowl. Pour belittle juices into job saucepan and containerful soured fat. Add the thyme sprig and roil until juices are low to 1 1/4 cups and toughened slightly, rousing occasionally, most 7-8 minutes. Return apricots to juices to rewarm and flavour with briny and pepper. Turn duck, boob lateral up. Cut legs from duck. Cut soured wings with whatever boob attached. Cut breasts from score and thinly swing crosswise. Spoon juices with apricots over score and enjoy!
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