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A roasted goose stuffed with mashed potatoes, onions, sage, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Roast Goosb

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean the goose thoroughly and wash it like a turkey.

  2. Make a dressing by mixing the mashed potatoes, chopped onions, sage, salt, and pepper.

  3. Stuff the dressing into the body of the goose and sew it up.

Roast and make gravy

  1. Roast the goose for 2 hours, basting it with its own drippings.

  2. Halfway through roasting, remove excess fat from the roaster.

  3. Use the remaining drippings to make gravy, boiling the liver as you would for turkey.

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. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Potato + sagetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together386 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

Goose
Provides the main meat and the fat that renders into the drippings used for basting and gravy.
Potatoes
Bind the dressing with starch and add moisture and body to the stuffing.
Onions
Add savory sweetness and aroma to the dressing as they soften while cooking inside the bird.
Sage
Adds a savory, herbal aroma that complements the rich goose meat.

The step that matters

Removing excess fat halfway through roasting. Goose carries a large amount of fat under the skin. Pouring off the rendered fat during roasting keeps the drippings usable for gravy and helps the skin brown rather than sit in grease.

Swap the sage

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, onion, pepper. 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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