Smoked Wild Duck

Ingredients

• Wild ducks (allow 1 duck per person for hearty eaters)
• Salt
• Pepper
• Butter
• Red Wine
• Apples
• Onions

Instructions

1. Soak ducks in milk for 4 to 5 hours.
2. Take ducks out of milk. Salt and pepper inside and out.
3. Cut up apples and onions; stuff ducks with unpeeled apples and onions.
4. Use a pit that cooks with smoke only. Put ducks on pit and cook slowly with smoke from fire until ducks are tender. Add hickory chips to fire for flavor.
5. Make a marinating sauce of melted butter, red wine, salt and pepper. baste ducks often while cooking. Cooking time should take 2 to 4 hours depending on size of ducks and temperature of fire.

Duck may be sliced and served cold as an appetizer. It can also be ground and used for making a meat dip.