Duck Soup (Czarnina)

Ingredients

• 1 stalk celery cut into 2 inch pieces
• 4 cups duck blood 
• 2 tablespoons flour all-purpose
• 1 sprig parsley fresh chopped
• 1 cup heavy cream 
• 1 tablespoon juice of lemon fresh
• 16 ounces prune- cut to pieces pitted
• 0.5 cup raisins 
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 12 servings salt and pepper to taste
• 1  baking apples are apples that have a sweet-tart balance and hold their shape when cored peeled chopped
• 8 cups water 
• 1 tablespoon sugar white
• 5  allspice whole
• 4 pound duck wild whole

Equipment

• bowl
• pot
• cheesecloth

Directions

1. Cover whole duck with water in large stock pot.
2. Add salt, and bring to a boil. Skim off foam.
3. 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.
4. Remove cheese cloth bag from stock pot.
5. Remove duck. Discard bones, cut up meat, and return to the broth.
6. Mix in prunes, raisins and apple. Simmer for 30 minutes.
7. In a medium bowl, beat flour and sugar into cream until smooth. Beat in duck blood gradually.
8. Add 1/2 cup hot soup stock to blood mixture, blending thoroughly.
9. 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.