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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Ami Silberman wrote:

The recipie I particularily remember is Chinese Tea Duck. You take a
airtight (or nearly so) container, put in about a cup of loose tea leaves
and a cup of raw rice, a wire rack, and a duck. Stick it on top of the
stove for about an hour and a half. If the container isn't airtight, you
may have to open up all your windows and disconnect the fire alarm. (This
is what happened when we tried it.) The duck is absolutely delicious. It
does seem an odd way of cooking. My theory was that some guy centuries ago
had a warehouse where he stored rice and tea, and kept a few ducks in the
attic. One night, a drunken Toshiro Mifune crept in, looking for the
hidden Samurai armor, and accidentally set fire to the place. The poor
owner was distraught, but kept wondering "what is that wonderful smell"...

Now that I've got to try! Is there a particular type of tea to use? Like
Green Tea for a male Mallard?

Pat

We used a fairly robust black tea, Lapsang Souchong IIRC. I don't remember
where we got the recipe though. We also prepared lacquered duck, which is
basted in a sauce made from honey and "quatre epices" or "four spice
powder", which is a French concoction made with cloves, cinnamon, and a
couple of other ingredients which I can't remember anymore.

Eric Chomko wrote:

You'd probably miss with a shotgun as well. And I wouldn't advise
shooting
a shotgun into a barrel. But that's just me.

My dad had some long-distance friends over many years ago. They started
having fun with a shotgun. One of them shot a bucket of drywall mud, which
promptly exploded.

Drywall fell from that tree for years afterwards.

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:36:20 -0500, Scott Hedrick wrote:

"Pat Flannery" wrote...

With luck, you can down 25 to 50 ducks at a time- what this lacks in
sportsmanship it more than makes up for in efficiency.

*Then*, one can wait to see what that many duck carcasses will attract,

An equal-sized flock of homonecrophiliac ducks?

...and have at it.

That's one way of putting it...

Sportsmanship, hell- I'm hungry!

Er...

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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:28:46 -0500, "Scott Hedrick"
wrote:

I'm tempted to blow off my pending meeting with OM and see if the store's
still open.

....Check your e-mail. Considering my sked for the weekend, I'm
probably not available on Sunday or Monday now. I may have to go back
to SA on Sunday after all.

Frap.

OM

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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:51:07 -0800, l (Peter
Stickney) wrote:

Well, sir, you've made me look up my Grandmother's Wild Duck
(Sheldrake, actually, - a Maine version of Merganser) stew.

....Oh, those alien birds they imported from the TARDIS :-P

OM

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Pat Flannery wrote:

[...]
around a quarter pound of gunpowder in the base of it, and pile in some
rags for tamping- and around 3 pounds of screws, bolts, and small scrap
metal on top of the wadding

hey, you forgot the two cast iron balls connected by chain -- to topple
the duck's rigging!

/dps

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Eric Chomko wrote:

Rand Simberg ) wrote:
: What leverage is needed? If the employee doesn't get paid what was
: stipulated at the time of hire, the employer is in breach of the
: contract, and he can quit, just as he can be fired if he doesn't do
: the job. That's why it's a mutually-agreed employment contract.

The contract is nothing but a piece of paper without a fair justice
system.


Fear of retaliation seems to be why so many WalMart workers don't argue
when told to do "off the clock" overtime. This results in many of them
being paid less than minimum wage; certainly less than the contract
promised. Corporations can and do operate successfully while still
treating employees as humans and the common weal as important, but it is
rare in a society without something to keep greed from being excessive.

/dps

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Ami Silberman wrote:



Now that I've got to try! Is there a particular type of tea to use? Like
Green Tea for a male Mallard?

Pat



We used a fairly robust black tea, Lapsang Souchong IIRC.


That's my favorite tea, BTW. The concept of your recipe seems to be to
produce smoked duck if I'm reading it right.

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Ami Silberman wrote:


Now that I've got to try! Is there a particular type of tea to use? Like
Green Tea for a male Mallard?

Pat


We used a fairly robust black tea, Lapsang Souchong IIRC.


That's my favorite tea, BTW. The concept of your recipe seems to be to
produce smoked duck if I'm reading it right.

Pat
Essentially, however it smokes in a low-oxygen environment.

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"Ami Silberman" writes:

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Rand Simberg wrote:

Depends on calibre and muzzle velocity. With fish like Eric, though,
a shotgun is adequate, and one shot will do ya.

Netting Eric is like fishing for Farm Trout. It's so easy, you feel
guilty.

Ahh... unless you are using a slug, the shotgun projectile will probably
have more than one piece of shot in it- that's why they call it a
"shotgun"- because it fires multiple shot rather than a bullet... I still
think this is an odd way to fish, but using thermite to boil a pond full
of ducks is a little odd also, but at least does not lack in imagination.

Unlikely - wather's a great heat sink. But - Thermit will allow you
to hold the first underwater Duck Barbecue and Fish Fry. That sounds
pretty good.

However, it is a lousy way of cooking duck. To cook American ducks correctly
requires something that lets the fat leak out. (One way we've found that is
very nice is to poke holes in the skin, steam it til most of the fat has
rendered out, and the roast it.) Oddly enough, some European ducks are so
lean that they have to be barded (wrapped in fat) to cook well.

Well, sir, you've made me look up my Grandmother's Wild Duck
(Sheldrake, actually, - a Maine version of Merganser) stew.

1) Obtain 1 Sheldrake.
2) Take a medium-sized Cauldron (Ask the Theater Folks downta Gould
Academy if they're done with the one they borrowed for Macbeth.) Set
up a tripod, build a good hardwood (Birch & Poplar, mostly) fire, &
boil up a batch of water. Toss in the Sheldrake, and an old Axe head.
3) Continue boiling, adding water as necessary, for 1 week.
4) Add a couple of rabbits, Drawn & Quartered, and a Beaver Tail or 2
if you've got any around. Keep boiling another day or so.
5) Add as much Potatoes, Carrots, & other Root Vegetables as you can
stand.
6) Stew is doen whe you can stick a fork into the Axe Head. When you
can, throw away the Sheldrake and eat the Axe Head.

--
Pete Stickney

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