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A Goose Marinaded

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 887 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

A Goose Marinaded

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bone the goose and stuff it with a mixture of sage, onions, apples, bread crumb, beef marrow, red wine, nutmeg, pepper, salt, lemon peel, and egg yolks. Sew it up.

  2. Fry the stuffed goose until light brown.

  3. Place the goose in a deep stew pan with the gravy. Cover and stew for 2 hours.

  4. Remove the goose, keep it warm, and skim the fat from the gravy.

  5. Add lemon pickle, browning, red wine, anchovy, mace, pepper, and salt to the gravy. Thicken with flour and butter.

  6. Strain the gravy over the goose and serve.

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 + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Sage + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together642 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

  5. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sage, onion, beef, red wine, nutmeg, pepper, lemon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sage, onion, beef, red wine, nutmeg, pepper, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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