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Stuffing for Geese

A stuffing for goose made from bread crumbs, stewed tomatoes, celeriac, the goose's giblets and an egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,062 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stuffing for Geese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Soak the bread crumbs in cold water.

  2. Squeeze the bread crumbs dry.

Make the stuffing

  1. Heat the fat in a frying pan.

  2. Add the bread crumbs and fry them for a little while.

  3. Stir in the minced giblets, onion, celeriac, tomatoes, salt, pepper, ginger, nutmeg and parsley, and mix well.

  4. Stir in the beaten egg.

  5. Use as stuffing.

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. Nutmeg + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Nutmeg + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 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

Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and give the stuffing body and a soft, binding texture.
Egg
Binds the stuffing together as it sets when cooked.
Celeriac
Adds bulk and a mild, earthy crunch to the stuffing.
Stewed tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity, sweetening and balancing the rich goose flavour.
Goose giblets
Contribute rich, savoury meaty flavour to the stuffing.

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, tomato, onion, nutmeg, liver, egg, parsley):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, tomato, onion, nutmeg, liver, egg, parsley. 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.