How To Make Duck Soup (Czarnina)

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Ingredients

  • 1 (4 pound) wild duck, whole
  • 4 cups duck blood
  • 8 cups water
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 stalk celery, cut into 2 inch pieces
  • 1 sprig chopped fresh parsley
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 5 whole allspice berries
  • 2 whole cloves
  • 16 ounces pitted prunes
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 1 tart apple – peeled, cored and chopped
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon white sugar
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

Directions

Cover whole duck with water in large stock pot. Add salt, and bring to a boil. Skim off foam.

Place celery, parsley, allspice, and cloves in a cheese cloth bag, and add to stock pot. Cover and cook over low heat until meat is tender, approximately 1 1/2 hours.

Remove cheese cloth bag from stock pot. Remove duck. Discard bones, cut up meat, and return to the broth.

Mix in prunes, raisins and apple. Simmer for 30 minutes.

In a medium bowl, beat flour and sugar into cream until smooth. Beat in duck blood gradually. Add 1/2 cup hot soup stock to blood mixture, blending thoroughly. Pour mixture slowly back into stock pot, stirring constantly until soup comes to a boil. Season to taste with salt, pepper, lemon juice and vinegar.