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Potato Stuffing

A potato-based stuffing for goose, seasoned with pepper, sage, salt, butter, and onion juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage 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 ↓

Potato Stuffing

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the stuffing

  1. Peel and boil the potatoes until tender, then mash them finely.

  2. Add pepper, sage, salt, butter, and onion juice to the mashed potatoes.

Stuff and truss the goose

  1. Stuff the mixture lightly into the breast and body of the goose.

  2. Sew and truss the goose as you would for turkey.

  3. Sprinkle the outside with salt, pepper, and flour, then cover with slices of fat salt pork.

Roast and baste

  1. Roast the goose in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 45 minutes.

  2. Remove the pork, baste with the pan drippings, and pour off excess oil if necessary.

  3. Baste every 15 minutes after the first 25-30 minutes of roasting.

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. Pepper + sagetop 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. Pepper + oniontop 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

Potatoes
Mashed to form the bulk of the stuffing, giving it a soft, moist body.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour and softening the mashed potato texture.
Onion juice
Adds a savoury onion aroma to the mashed potato stuffing.
Sage
Contributes the herbal aroma that defines the stuffing's flavour.

The step that matters

Stuffing the goose lightly. Stuffing packed tightly expands and resists heat, so the centre may stay underdone while the outside overcooks. Loose filling lets heat reach every part and the stuffing cook through.

Swap the sage

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

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

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