Recipe - Aromatic Roast Duck

1 Piece dried tangerine peel
1 Duck; 4 to 5 pounds
1 Clove garlic
1 Scallion stalk
2 Or
3 sl Fresh ginger root
One half cup Soy sauce
2 tablespoon Sherry
One half teaspoon Soybean paste
1 teaspoon Sugar
5 tablespoon Peanut oil

1. Soak tangerine peel. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Wipe duck inside and out with a damp cloth; then dry with paper
toweling. Sew up or skewer its neck opening. Place ducktailside up in a
deep bowl.

3. Mince garlic, scallion, ginger root and soaked tangerine peel. Combine
with soy sauce, sherry, soybean paste and sugar. Pour mixture into duck
cavity. Sew up the cavity securely or skewer.

4. Brush duck with oil. Place on a rack over a drip pan containing several
inches of water. Roast until done (about 25 minutes per pound) brushing
duck with oil at 15minute intervals. (Add more water to drip pan as it
evaporates.)

5. Let duck cool; then chill. Bone and cut in bitesize pieces (each with
some skin). Serve cold.

From The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, ISBN 0517658704. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.