Roast Duck

• 4 ducks, ready to cook
• 1 clove garlic, halved
• Salt and pepper
• 2 sm. cooking apples, quartered
• 2 md. onions, quartered
• 4 celery stalk tops
• 1/2 stick butter, melted
• 8 slices bacon

1. Rub duck skin with garlic and sprinkle the birds inside and out with salt and pepper.
2. Fill cavities with the apples, onions and celery tops.
3. Cover breasts with bacon slices.
4. Place birds, beast sides up, in roasting pan and roast at 400F until done.
5. This varies from as short as 20 minutes for rare up to an hour.
6. Baste every 15 minutes with the butter.
7. Remove cavity contents and serve with sauce as desired, but do not prepare sauce from pan drippings.
8. Supposedly, the cavity filling absorbs the wild taste and most folks don't like that.

cook, clove garlic, salt, cooking apples, onions, tops, butter, bacon

Taken from www.foodgeeks.com/recipes/16785 (may not work)