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Baked Vegetable Goose

A baked loaf made from bread crumbs, egg, onion or celery, sage, salt, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Baked Vegetable Goose

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Moisten the bread crumbs with water or milk.

  2. Mix in sage, salt, egg, and chopped onion or celery.

  3. Form the mixture into a mound in a buttered pudding dish.

  4. Pour cream over the mound.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 to 40 minutes.

  2. Serve immediately after baking.

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. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Sage + oniontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Bread + sagetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Bread + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread crumbs
Provide the bulk and structure of the mound, soaking up moisture to hold its shape.
Egg
Binds the crumbs together and sets as the mound bakes, giving it a firm texture.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness to the surface, helping it stay tender as it bakes.
Onion or celery
Adds moisture and savory flavor to the crumb mixture.

Swap the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, milk, egg, onion, cream):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, egg, onion, cream. 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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