North Croatian Roasted Duck - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2500 g duck (the whole duck)
50 g lard
20 g salt
1 tablespoon marjoram

Preparation

Clean the duck and salt only from inside 2-3 hours before roasting. Add one tablespoon of marjoram inside the duck to cover inside meat.
Heat oven to 250\u00b0C If there is enough fat inside duck, remove this fat and melt it separately in small pot; add lard. Heat lard and pour over duck's skin (that way we close pores on skin).
Immediately put the duck into hot oven, roast 20 minutes on 250\u00b0C and than reduce heat to 180\u00b0C Last 20 minutes roast again on 200\u00b0C
Duck weight 2500 g need about 120 minutes roasting.
Start cutting the duck after 15 minutes resting outside. Use this time to remove fat drippings you will need for \"mlinci\".