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Roast Guinea-fowl

A roasted guinea‑fowl seasoned with salt, pepper, and served with currant jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and currant are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,345 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Roast Guinea-fowl

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Pluck the guinea-fowl carefully and singe it.

  2. Draw the bird without breaking the entrails and wipe it with a wet towel.

  3. If desired, stuff it with any force-meat suitable for duck or goose, omitting sage.

Roast and serve

  1. Roast the guinea-fowl before an open fire or bake it in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C).

  2. Season with salt and pepper after it is browned.

  3. Cook until well done and serve hot with plenty of currant jelly.

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. Pepper + curranttop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Guinea fowl
Forms the main body of the dish, with its meat cooking through to well done.
Currant jelly
Adds sweetness and acidity that balances the rich, savoury roasted meat.

“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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