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Roasted goose seasoned with bread crumbs, salt, pepper, onions, and sage, served with apple sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Goose, Roast

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pluck the goose and reserve the feathers.

  2. Singe the goose by holding it over a lit piece of kitchen paper.

  3. Prepare a seasoning with bread crumbs, salt, pepper, onions, and sage.

  4. Truss the goose and cover the breast with greased paper.

Roast

  1. Roast for 1.5 hours.

  2. Baste well during roasting.

Serve

  1. Serve with apple sauce if large.

  2. Prepare good brown gravy.

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. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  3. Onion + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Bread + sagetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Bread + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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 its fat renders out during roasting.
Bread crumbs
Absorb fat and juices, giving the seasoning a soft, moist body.
Sage
Adds a savoury, aromatic herbal flavour.
Onions
Add sweetness and aroma as they soften in the oven's heat.

The step that matters

Baste well during roasting. Spooning hot fat and juices over the bird keeps the skin from drying out and helps it brown evenly, since browning depends on surface heat and fat.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, pepper, sage. 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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