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Roast Goose

Roast goose stuffed with bread, egg, garlic or onion, pepper, sea salt, celery, and optional chestnuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Roast Goose

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rub the goose inside and out with lemon.

  2. Place the goose in a roasting pan and roast until half done.

  3. Prepare stuffing with toasted light bread, egg bread, garlic or onion, pepper, coarse sea salt, and chopped celery.

  4. Add blanched and finely chopped chestnuts if desired.

Roast and serve

  1. Stuff the goose with the prepared dressing and continue roasting until fully cooked.

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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  5. Celery + chestnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together231 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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 rich fat that renders during roasting.
Toasted light bread
Forms the body of the stuffing and soaks up rendered fat and juices.
Egg bread
Adds richness and binds the stuffing together as it cooks.
Chestnuts
Add starchy texture and a mild sweetness to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Stuff the goose with the prepared dressing and continue roasting until fully cooked.. Stuffing the bird packs the cavity, so heat reaches the dressing more slowly than the meat. The goose must be cooked through, and the stuffing must reach a safe internal temperature before the bird is served.

Swap the chestnut

The recipe marks chestnut as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, bread, egg, garlic, pepper, celery):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Beansfits about as well
  3. Lentilsfits about as well
  4. Chestnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, bread, egg, garlic, pepper, celery. 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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