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Anonymous No.21506332 >>21506335 >>21506458 >>21506731
Mother wants me to cook duck l'orange on sunday for an occasion, any tips or advise?
Anonymous No.21506335 >>21506336
>>21506332 (OP)
Might take longer than you think, i miscalculated the timing the first time i did it. Stick to the recipe and you'll be fine anon.
Anonymous No.21506336
>>21506335
and get a duck with enough body fat
Anonymous No.21506363
honestly just go buy some
Anonymous No.21506458 >>21506741
>>21506332 (OP)
Here's the Escoffier recipe for sauce bigarade:
For braised duck: Pass the braising liquor from cooking the duck through a strainer and remove the fat carefully; reduce it until fairly thick. Add the juice of four oranges and one lemon to each 1 litre of reduced braising liquor so as to reconstitute it to the required consistency.

For poêléed duck: Remove the duck from the pan, add a little brown veal stock to the sediment, bring to the boil, pass through a strainer and carefully remove the fat. For each 1 litre add the following: 20 g of sugar caramelized and diluted with ¼ dl of vinegar, and the juice of four oranges and 1 lemon. Lightly thicken with diluted arrowroot.

In both cases this sauce is finished with 2 tbs of very fine Julienne of orange zest and 1 tbs Julienne of lemon zest, both well blanched.
Anonymous No.21506707 >>21506734
Be prepared for a long and arduous journey that you will never want to do again
Anonymous No.21506731
>>21506332 (OP)
>Mother wants me to cook duck l'orange on sunday for an occasion, any tips or advise?

Wrong time of year for fresh duck. Also, you will need a veal demiglace, bleh, so a lot of prep, so this categorizes, to me, as a restaurant-only meal for the Fall. Your sauce is defatted stock blended with veal demiglace. I would make something else unless your role is to stay in the kitchen and flambe the served food, and basically not dine on the dinner yourself.
Anonymous No.21506734
>>21506707
Quite accurate
Anonymous No.21506741 >>21506781
>>21506458
The first version doesn't use gastrique (caramel with vinegar)? I thought that was one of the cornerstone ingredients of the sauce.
Anonymous No.21506781
>>21506741
You just need oranges. He also has another version without gastrique where the duck is braised in 2 dl fond brun and 4 dl sauce espagnole. After cooking the fat should be removed and the juice of 2 small oranges and 1/2 lemon added. Also blanched zests of 1/2 each orange and lemon.

But most people don't have sauce espagnole or demi glace on hand so the first versions are much easier and also more orange forward.
Anonymous No.21506912
You’re supposed to use bitter oranges.
Anonymous No.21508330
OP here, making the stock and brining the chicken now.
Anonymous No.21508337
OP here, making the stock and brining the duck now. Gonna go shopping for the sauce ingredients