Name: Potato Stuffing for Roast Goose
Ingredients: 8 good-sized potatoes; Salt to taste; Pepper to taste; 4 onions, very finely chopped

Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Potato Stuffing for Roast Goose

Ingredients

8 good-sized potatoes
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
4 onions, very finely chopped

Directions

Prepare

Boil and mash the potatoes.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Mix the chopped onions with the hot mashed potatoes.

Stuff the goose

Stuff the body of the goose as full as possible.

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.

Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,305 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes: Provide the bulk and starchy body of the stuffing, giving a soft texture that holds moisture.
Onions: Add aromatic flavour, and fine chopping spreads that flavour evenly through the mashed potato.