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Goose Stuffing a LA Tickletooth

A savory stuffing for goose made with roasted onion, apples, mashed potatoes, spices, bread crumbs, mushroom ketchup, shallot vinegar, and stock.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Goose Stuffing a LA Tickletooth

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stuffing

  1. Roast the onion for 45 minutes.

  2. In a large bowl, combine the roasted onion, chopped apples, and mashed potatoes.

  3. Add the dried mace, dried marjoram, mustard flour, salt, sugar, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and bread crumbs. Mix well.

  4. Moisten the mixture with mushroom ketchup, shallot vinegar, and strong stock.

Stuff the goose

  1. Stuff the mixture into the body of the goose and skewer it closed.

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. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

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

  3. Potato + marjoramtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Potato + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

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

  5. Marjoram + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Absorb the moisture and give the stuffing bulk and a light texture.
Mashed potatoes
Bind the stuffing and add a soft, moist body.
Apples
Add moisture and a gentle sweetness that balances the savory flavors.
Spanish onion
Adds aroma and sweetness, which deepens as the onion roasts.
Mushroom ketchup
Adds savory, umami depth to the stuffing.
Strong stock
Adds moisture and savory richness to the stuffing.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, apple, potato, marjoram, mustard, flour, sugar):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, apple, potato, marjoram, mustard, flour, sugar. 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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