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Mock Goose

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and gooseberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mock Goose

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stuff the goose with sage and onions.

  2. Baste with goose fat.

  3. Serve with onion, gooseberry, or apple sauce.

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 + gooseberrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Gooseberry + appletop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl isobutyrate (flower).

  3. Sage + appletop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together755 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + gooseberrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sage, sauce, gooseberry, apple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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