Czarnina Recipe

• 1 whole wild Duck
• 4 cups Duck Blood
• Salt (to taste)
• Black Pepper (to taste)
• 1 stalk Celery
• 1 Parsley stem (chopped)
• 1 cup heavy Cream
• 5 whole Allspice Berries
• 2 Cloves
• 480 g pitted Prunes
• ½ cup Raisins
• 1 Tart Apple (peeled, cored & chopped)
• 2 tbsp Flour
• 1 tbsp Sugar
• 1 tbsp Lemon Juice

• Place the whole duck in a pot. Add salt and water. Cook until boiling.
• Mix celery, parsley, allspice, and cloves in a cloth and tie it tightly. Lower in the pot and cook the mixture covered for 1½ hours on low flame.
• Remove the cloth bag and duck. Separate the bones and cut the meat into pieces. Put it back to the soup.
• Stir in prunes, raisins, apple and cook for 30 minutes.
• Whip sugar and cream with flour in a bowl until smooth.
• Gradually add duck blood to it and mix well. Pour ½ cup soup into it and blend nicely.
• Add the blood mixture to the pot and stir until boiling.
• Flavor it with lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
• Serve hot.