note for bakers who use parchment

[grasswire]

I picked up a 25 foot roll of baking parchment at the dollar store. I've used it this year when baking cookies, and it was just fine! One buck.

[Warpy]

1. I didn't see it when i went to pick up a bargain pan

to render Daffy's fat into for the first half hour, after which he'll go into a rack in a big pan with potatoes and leeks roasting in the rest of the ducky goodness underneath him. His skin, once the fat has rendered, will be brushed with a brew of apricot preserves, hoisin sauce and a blast of Sriracha for sweet/fruity/savory/piquant goodness.

And I'll have duck fat to last all year, probably.

[grasswire]

3. that's what I was looking for there -- a bargain pan

then I decided they were too flimsy to support the cake I was sending on Amtrak with the college boy.

But I was sure happy to find the parchment!

[Retrograde]

6. What time is dinner, and where do you live :) ?

Sounds delicious!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

8. I want the recipie! I have a duck in the freezer and this sounds great!

[Warpy]

10. No recipe, it's just what I found in the fridge.

Yeah, I'm one of those.

The Sriracha gave it just enough of a kick, the apricot preserves gave it some sweetness and the hoisin sauce was the savory.

I have no idea how much I used of each.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

13. You are a better man ( or women) than I.

I would never take on a duck without instructions. First, they are too expensive. Second, I just don't have enough experience with duck.

[Warpy]

14. Any recipe online will tell you how long to cook it

and a meat thermometer will tell you when it's done.

[MrMickeysMom]

9. I read your post elsewhere about duck fat, and had to ask...

… what other things are enhanced with duck fat? Is it good as a general fat to be used in anything? I think I've had duck maybe one time in my life, much earlier, and obviously it didn't make an impression at that young age.

Thanks in advance.

[Warpy]

11. Popcorn, for one thing

You can also use it in recipes that call for bacon to be rendered into bacon fat. It's different but it's good. I love sweating soup veggies in it.

Still, it really sings loudest when you cook potato in it.

[MrMickeysMom]

12. I'll check it out soon, Warpy...

I have a smoker, so perhaps I should just take the plunge to smoke some Daffy… courage….

[TxDemChem]

2. Who woulda thunk it! Thanks.

I'll have to make a stop for parchment in the next couple of weeks. My kind of pricing!

[Callalily]

4. Thanks for the tip!

I'll have to pick some up next time I'm in that part of town.

[NJCher]

5. great tip

I use parchment paper for everything, having had the fear of Dog put in me of aluminum foil (Alzheimer's).


Cher

[rdharma]

7. I was amazed when I heard what you can do with parchment!

Lots more than just cookies! So I picked up a roll.