cooking wild duck after duck hunt

[rjmt]

having a 6 lbs store bought duck for my 72nd birthday dinner tonight
reminded of a duck dinner I had back in '57
my father went duck hunting with neighbor men, I watched them clean the ducks in the garage, my mother and neighbor women cooked the ducks up for a community meal
I distinctly remember a bowl on the table where we would spit the shot out that was in the duck meat
my wife tells me that's not so, that the shot was removed before cooking
what's your feedback

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[dangerranger60]

Most people remove all the shot they see. That does not mean they get it all. I don't think we ever had a special dish for the shot, You just pushed it off to the side of your plate if you got one. Not everyone got one. DR

 

[matchu865]

Not much shot gets into duck breasts, but when it does it's pretty obvious and easy to remove when cleaning the duck. Different if you pluck and roast one I guess.

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

Happy Birthday !

 

[Stomper]

Domestic duck is awesome…. Wild duck is about right there with liver taste…. BLECK!


It's good in Thanksgiving stuffing to augment the turkey giblets, though!

 

[DirectDrive]

You're not going to get all the shot out in most cases.
I would say that you didn't "spit" the shot into the bowl, but rather take it out of your mouth and place it in the bowl.
The advent of the steel shot (read hard) era makes it even more important to chew carefully.

 

[rjmt]

You're not going to get all the shot out in most cases.
I would say that you didn't "spit" the shot into the bowl, but rather take it out of your mouth and place it in the bowl.
The advent of the steel shot (read hard) era makes it even more important to chew carefully.

it was South Dakota in the '50s - my father told me to just spit it in the bowl

 

[rjmt]

it was South Dakota in the '50s - my father told me to just spit it in the bowl

OK, my sister tells me the girls delicately took the shot out of their mouth and put it on their plate
us boys spit it into a bowl
REAL MEN

 

[DirectDrive]

OK, my sister tells me the girls delicately took the shot out of their mouth and put it on their plate
us boys spit it into a bowl
REAL MEN

I woulda beat ya in a watermelon seed spittin fight.

 

[rjmt]

I woulda beat ya in a watermelon seed spittin fight.

we also had cow Pie throwing fights
you had to be able to judge the consistency of a cow pie - to soft and they come apart in your hand
to hard and they don't spatter properly on contact
a properly aged cow pie can be thrown at least 50'

 

[drstrangelove]

Domestic duck is awesome…. Wild duck is about right there with liver taste…. BLECK!


It's good in Thanksgiving stuffing to augment the turkey giblets, though!

As my buddy states… if wild duck tasted like chicken, they would be extinct.

 

[titsonritz]

Domestic duck is awesome….

...when its cooked right, not everyone doing it knows how to do that.

 

[cowboykid8]

As my buddy states… if wild duck tasted like chicken, they would be extinct.

Guess your buddy hasn't heard of Market hunting in the 1800 and 1900s and how it almost ran several waterfowl species extinct?

As many duck hunters as there are, far fewer are decent cooks, too.

I try to cut out and steel shot that I might find when cleaning birds. When I was a kid we thought it was cool be have found a pellet when we were eating birds.

 

[arrowshooter]

I keep tweezers handy when rinsing the breasts. I'll tweeze the pellet holes and pull out the feathers and shot if it's in there.

 

[Capn Jack]

Domestic duck is awesome…. Wild duck is about right there with liver taste…. BLECK!


It's good in Thanksgiving stuffing to augment the turkey giblets, though!

Same with wild turkeys tough as a boot.

 

[Capn Jack]

we also had cow Pie throwing fights
you had to be able to judge the consistency of a cow pie - to soft and they come apart in your hand
to hard and they don't spatter properly on contact
a properly aged cow pie can be thrown at least 50'

You mean, "Field Frisbes"?

 

[Capn Jack]

My brother says he gave up duck hunting when a drop of water froze to the barrel of his shotgun.

I can still remember the way a baked duck bounced on the floor when it fell off of the pan it was being cooked on.
Our mother used to bake until "petrified" any wild game we would bring home . She would say, you never know when those things might have bugs in them.
Pork seldom came into the house, and when it did, it was baked, or fried tough.
That was back in the day when we could buy horse meat in the local butcher shop.

 

[Sawtooth58]

having a 6 lbs store bought duck for my 72nd birthday dinner tonight
reminded of a duck dinner I had back in '57
my father went duck hunting with neighbor men, I watched them clean the ducks in the garage, my mother and neighbor women cooked the ducks up for a community meal
I distinctly remember a bowl on the table where we would spit the shot out that was in the duck meat
my wife tells me that's not so, that the shot was removed before cooking
what's your feedback

By far the best recipe I've found for duck is:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Season whole duck to taste, and place on a wood cedar plank. Place in oven and bake for 30 min, checking every 10 min and baste with butter. After 30 min remove and cover for 10 minutes to let duck rest. After resting period, remove the duck from the plank, throw the duck in the trash and eat the cedar plank.

 

[slimmer13]

IMO the best way to eat wild duck is jerky made on the Traeger.

 

[Sawtooth58]

Yes, Muskrat done that way is delicious as well…chewy and delicious