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Goose Stuffing a LA Tickletooth

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Goose Stuffing a LA Tickletooth

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large bowl, combine the chopped onion, apples, and mashed potatoes.

  2. Add the dried mace, dried marjoram, mustard flour, salt, sugar, pepper, cayenne, and bread crumbs. Mix well.

  3. Moisten the mixture with mushroom catsup, shallot vinegar, and strong stock.

  4. Stuff the mixture into the body of the goose and skewer it closed.

  5. Roasting the onions before stuffing will enhance their flavor.

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. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

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

  3. Potato + marjoramtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Potato + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

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

  5. Marjoram + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, apple, potato, marjoram, mustard, flour, sugar):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, apple, potato, marjoram, mustard, flour, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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