Camp Style Ducks and Beans

This recipe was handed down verbally through the male lineage of my family for generations. This is my father's version, as he told it to me at the old log camp.

Ingredients: Two Ducks, Your favourite bean recipe – any style.

When your beans are about two and a half hours from done, place four freshly cut and split halves of three inch sugar maple saplings into a well greased roasting pan. Add about a quarter of an inch of water and lay the ducks on the maples. Cook uncovered at a high heat for a half hour to rend and brown the ducks. Remove ducks, pour off rendering and replace ducks. Add about a quarter of an inch of water and gently pour beans around ducks and baste ducks with some of the sauce from the beans. Cover and cook at a medium heat for two hours. Open camp door and heave the ducks and beans as far as possible and enjoy gnawing on the maple saplings.