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The only way in the world to serve a canvas-back or a mallard, or a sprig, or even the toothsome teal, is as follows: The plucked bird should be stuffed with a tight handful of plain raw celery and, in a piping oven, roasted variously 8,9,10, or even 11 minutes, according to the size of bird and heat of oven.

Jack London's Recipes: An Insight Into Jack's Dietary Habits 2010

Jack loved either canvas-back, mallard, or teal cooked excessively rare and accompanied by potatoes au gratin.

Jack London's Recipes: An Insight Into Jack's Dietary Habits 2010

I step up on the porch, past the canvas-back chair, small wooden table and hammock, and dig the key from the Velcro side pocket of my shorts.

Six Bad Things Huston, Charlie 2005

Why import canvas-back ducks for appetites which would be quite as well satisfied with those out of the next farm-yard?

The American Senator 2004

“Fellow wrote me from Man Trap Lake that he shot seven mallards and couple of canvas-back in one hour!”

Main Street 2004

After he was two weeks after his job, came to me on behalf of a wealthy investor that lives in Madison that wanted to buy our farm that's under foreclosure, to bail us out so that they could make it into a pond for canvas-back ducks.

Presidents Remarks At Iowa Farm ITY National Archives 1993

Although I've done a deal more sailing than I care to remember, I'm no canvas-back, and while I know enough not to call the deck the floor, I'm no hand at nautical terms.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

Although I've done a deal more sailing than I care to remember, I'm no canvas-back, and while I know enough not to call the deck the floor, I'm no hand at nautical terms.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

~ROASTED CANVAS-BACK DUCK~ -- Procure a fine canvas-back duck, pick, singe, draw thoroughly and wipe; throw inside a light pinch of salt, run in the head from the end of the head to the back, press and place in a roasting pan.

Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc. Rufus Estes

I would recommend raw oysters, a clear soup, a bit of fish with sliced cucumber -- an attractive _entrée_; a _fillet_ with vegetables, canvas-back duck, cheese and salad, coffee, and fruit.

The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men Walter Germain