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Roasted duck served with onion and sage dressing, giblet or pan gravy, currant jelly or cranberries, and green peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and sage are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,628 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Duck Roasted

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the ducks as you would for fowl.

  2. Make a dressing with onion and sage.

Roast and serve

  1. Roast the ducks like chickens, allowing 1 hour for large ducks.

  2. Serve with giblet or pan gravy, currant jelly or cranberries, and green peas.

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 + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + peastop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,460 recipes

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

  3. Sage + peastop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together204 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Currant + peastop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Sage + curranttop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together119 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Tender ducks
Provide the main meat, which cooks through and browns in the oven.
Onion
Adds aromatic sweetness and moisture to the dressing.
Sage
Contributes a savory, aromatic herb flavor to the dressing.
Giblet or pan gravy
Adds moisture and savory richness to the roasted duck.
Currant jelly or cranberries
Adds sweet-tart acidity that balances the richness of the duck.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, sage, peas):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Pumpkinfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, sage, peas. 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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