Vanilla-fragranced Duckling

== Ingredients ==
* 1 whole fresh duckling
* 1 tbsp salt
* 1 tsp ground white pepper
* ½ yellow large onion, split into quarters
* 1 orange, cut into four wedges
* 2 vanilla beans, split lengthwise
* 2 cups duck or chicken stock
== Directions ==
# Rinse the duckling inside and out, removing the neck, heart, gizzard and liver.
# Place the innards in the bottom of a roasting pan.
# Season the duckling with salt and pepper inside and out.
# Place onion pieces into the duck cavity.
# Squeeze juice of the orange over the duckling, then put rinds into duck cavity.
# With a thin knife, cut a slit on each side of the breast and in each leg/thigh and insert the vanilla bean halves.
# Put duckling on top of innards in roasting pan.
# Roast duckling for 15 minutes in a 500°F.
# Oven, then lower oven to 350°F and roast until a thermometer inserted into the duckling registers 165°F.
# Remove from oven and allow to cool for 30 minutes.
# Remove and discard onion and orange rinds.
# Using a cleaver, remove the back bone by standing the roasted duck on its neck end and cutting down each side of the back bone.
# Remove the rib cage and hip bones by slipping your finger tips around them, then lifting up and twisting the bones off the meat.
# The wing and leg bones remain.
# Set innards aside and defat the roasting pan, then deglaze pan with the duck or chicken stock.
# Bring stock to a boil, adding bones and innards and reduce stock to 1 cup.
# Remove the two half beans from the legs of the duckling and add to the cup of reduced stock, then reduce again to ½ cup.
# Reheat the two duck halves in a 400°F.
# Oven for 12 minutes until hot and the skin is crisp.
# Place on two hot serving plates with the breast halves still pierced with the vanilla bean halves.
# Ladle the hot sauce (with the vanilla bean pieces) over the duck breasts.
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