Peking-Style Duck Pancakes

Duck

• 60 oz water
• 6 oz honey
• 1 tbsp Sichuan pepper
• 4 star anise
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 oz ginger cut into pieces
• 1 oz tamari sauce
• 1 fresh mandarin orange thin peel only, no pith
• 1 duck head/neck, wings and feet trimmed (approx. 4-5 lb)
• 1 - 2 tsp Chinese five spice

Pancakes

• 25 ½ oz water divided
• 9 oz all-purpose flour plus extra to dust
• ⅛ tsp salt
• sesame oil to brush
• sweet plum sauce to serve
• 1 English cucumber thinly sliced in matchsticks (2 in.)
• 8 green onions thinly sliced in matchsticks (2 in.)