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Goose Stuffing, Potato

A potato-based stuffing for goose, including onion, butter, sage, salt, pepper, and chopped liver.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Goose Stuffing, Potato

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the stuffing

  1. Peel, wash, and cut the potatoes into small pieces.

  2. In a stewpan, combine the potatoes and minced onion with the butter. Cover the pan and shake it to prevent sticking; cook until the potatoes are partly cooked but not tender.

  3. Mix in the chopped liver, sage, salt, and pepper.

Stuff and roast

  1. Stuff the mixture inside the goose and tie the openings securely.

  2. Roast the goose as desired.

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. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  3. Walnut + sagetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together179 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the bulk of the stuffing and soak up the rendered goose fat and juices.
Goose liver
Adds richness and a deep, savory flavor to the stuffing.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps the potatoes and onion soften without sticking.

The step that matters

Cook the potatoes only partly. Potatoes that are fully cooked before stuffing turn mushy inside the bird, while partly cooked pieces finish tender as the goose roasts and absorb its juices.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, onion, butter, sage, pepper, liver):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chestnutfits about as well
  3. Walnutthe original
  4. Lentilsfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, onion, butter, sage, pepper, liver. 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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