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Roast Goose, with Sage and Onion Stuffing

Roast goose stuffed with sage and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, baked until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 Goose, with Sage and Onion Stuffing

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the goose

  1. Pluck the goose carefully.

  2. Remove the quill sockets.

  3. Singe off any remaining feathers.

Stuff and season

  1. Prepare the stuffing with sage and onion.

  2. Season the goose with salt and pepper.

  3. Stuff the goose with the prepared mixture.

Roast

  1. Roast in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) until cooked through.

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

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

  3. Sage + oniontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Goose
Forms the main meat; its fat renders during roasting, keeping the meat moist and crisping the skin.
Sage
Adds a savoury, earthy aroma that flavours the stuffing and the meat around it.
Onion
Softens and turns sweet as it cooks, adding moisture and mild sweetness to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Roast until cooked through. Poultry must reach a safe internal temperature throughout. The stuffing inside the bird must also heat fully, so the thickest parts need checking, not just the surface.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sage, 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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