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duck press en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A machine used to extract the blood and bone marrow from a duck for use in pressed duck.
   • As the bird's wings and legs, coated in mustard and bread crumbs, were whisked off to the kitchen for roasting, Dorin placed the bird's carcass into the duck press and added a gurgle of deep red Burgundy. 2016, Alex Prud'homme, The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act:
   • Cut off the breast carefully from four snipe, put the frames in a duck press with a clove of garlic, two cloves, three whole pepper corns and a sprig of parsley, turn the screw and obtain all the juice possible. 1890, Thomas Jefferson Murrey, “English Snipe”, in Good Things from a Chafing Dish, page 94:

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fr presse à canard (machine)