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Goose, with Chestnuts a LA Chipolita

A roasted goose stuffed with chestnuts, flavored with orange juice, currant jelly, and lemon peel, served with a reduced gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Goose, with Chestnuts a LA Chipolita

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the stuffing

  1. Prepare the goose as usual.

  2. Peel the chestnuts by scalding them.

  3. In a stewpan, combine chestnuts, butter, onion, and parsley; chop and mix well.

  4. Add broth to the chestnuts and stew until softened.

Stuff and make the gravy

  1. Stuff the goose with the chestnut mixture.

  2. Boil down the gravy significantly.

Serve

  1. When serving the goose, add orange juice, currant jelly, and lemon peel to the gravy.

  2. Pour the gravy over the goose at the table.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Chestnut + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together313 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Chestnuts
Soften into a starchy, creamy filling that bulks out the stuffing.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the chestnut stuffing.
Currant jelly
Adds sweetness and body to the gravy.
Orange juice
Adds acidity and brightness that balances the rich goose fat.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chestnut, butter, onion, parsley, orange, lemon, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chestnut, butter, onion, parsley, orange, lemon, pepper. 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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