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Goose Soup

A soup made by boiling a goose with ham, onion, carrot, celery, celery seed, cayenne pepper, and sherry or Madeira.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Goose Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. Boil the goose in stock instead of water.

  2. Add the giblets, ham, onion, carrot, and celery to the saucepan.

  3. Skim the liquid and simmer gently until the goose is cooked.

  4. Remove the goose and giblets.

Finish and serve

  1. Strain the soup.

  2. Season with cayenne.

  3. Add sherry or Madeira.

  4. Serve the goose with onion sauce.

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.

Explore the science

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Goose
Provides the main meat and rich flavour that the broth carries.
Lean ham
Adds savoury, salty depth to the stock as it simmers.
Sherry or madeira
Adds acidity and aromatic sweetness to finish the soup.

The step that matters

Simmer gently until the goose is cooked. Skimming and gentle simmering keep the broth clear and stop the liquid from boiling hard, which would toughen the meat and cloud the soup.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, carrot, celery, pepper, sherry):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, carrot, celery, pepper, sherry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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