Name: Roast Goose
Ingredients: 1 goose; chestnut and apple sauce

Why it works: Chestnut and apple work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 95 recipes. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

Roast Goose

Ingredients

1 goose
chestnut and apple sauce

Directions

Roast the goose like you would a chicken.
Serve it with chestnut and apple 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.

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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.

Chestnut + appletop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together95 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).
Chestnut + saucetop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together255 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Apple + saucetop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together965 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).