Crock Pot Wood Duck

Total Time: 5 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 5 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 wild ducks, wood ducks, cleaned, plucked, and thoroughly rinsed
• 2 tablespoons butter, softened
• 15 ounces cream of celery soup
• 15 ounces chicken stock
• 1 teaspoon seasoning salt
• 1/2 cup dry wine (chablis is good)
• 4 large carrots, peeled and chopped

Recipe

• 1 check the ducks thoroughly for shot -- remove any shot with tweezers.
• 2 place the cleaned ducks neck-up in a crock pot.
• 3 in a separate mixing bowl, blend the butter, soup, chicken stock, seasoned salt and wine.
• 4 pour the soup blend into the crockpot, over the ducks and add in the carrots.
• 5 cook on the high setting for one hour and then reduce to the low setting for 5 more hours. halfway through the cooking time, flip the ducks upside down. check for tenderness at the end of the 5 hours and cook for another hour if necessary.
• 6 serve with rice.
• 7 a tip: if you have trouble removing the feathers after scalding the duck, then make up a blend of half parafin and half beeswax and pour a little over the duck -- let it harden for a minute and then pull the feathers off.