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Yorkshire Goose Pie

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Turkey and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,636 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Yorkshire Goose Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Split the goose down the back and remove all bones.

  2. Bone the turkey and ducks in the same way.

  3. Season all the birds well with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  4. Lay the goose skin-side down on a clean dish.

  5. Stuff the turkey into the goose.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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