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A goose stuffed with a bread crumb, onion, sage, pork, and egg dressing, then roasted.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,388 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Prepare the goose

  1. Prepare the goose as you would a turkey.

  2. Mix bread crumbs, onion, sage, pepper, salt, pork, and egg to make the dressing.

  3. Stuff the goose with the dressing.

Roast and make gravy

  1. Roast the goose for 2 hours.

  2. Make gravy using the same method as for common goose.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sage + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,388 recipes

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

  2. Onion + porktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18,199 recipes

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

  3. Bread + porktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,342 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Bread + eggtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22,584 recipes

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

  5. Sage + porktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,527 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Goose
Main protein whose rendered fat keeps the meat moist and flavorful during roasting.
Egg
Binds the dressing ingredients together so it holds its shape when stuffed.
Bread crumbs
Absorb juices and give the dressing body and a soft, tender texture.
Pork
Adds fat and savory richness to the dressing, keeping it from drying out.
Sage
Contributes a warm, aromatic herbal flavor to the dressing.

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, sage, pepper, pork, egg):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, sage, pepper, pork, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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