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Gehrateiie Gans, Mit Kastanien — Roast Goose with Chestnuts

A roasted goose stuffed with chestnuts, butter, and broth, seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chestnut and pepper work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 826 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Gehrateiie Gans, Mit Kastanien — Roast Goose with Chestnuts

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chestnuts

  1. Scald the chestnuts and peel off their outer and inner rind.

  2. In a stew-pan, combine chestnuts, butter, and broth or water; steam until soft.

Roast the goose

  1. Stuff the goose with the chestnut mixture.

  2. Baste the goose well while roasting.

  3. Pour off the fat from the basting; stir broth or water around the roasting pan.

  4. Season with salt and pepper; serve with or without 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. Chestnut + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together826 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Chestnut + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together965 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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 rendered fat that bastes and flavours the dish.
Chestnuts
Add starchy body and a soft, sweet, nutty filling once steamed until tender.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that carries flavour into the chestnut mixture.
Broth or water
Provides moisture for steaming the chestnuts and loosening the pan juices.

The step that matters

Steaming the chestnuts until soft. Chestnuts stay firm and starchy if underdone, so they will not form a smooth, tender filling. Steaming them in liquid with butter softens the starches so they hold moisture and flavour inside the goose.

Swap the chestnut

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

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Black-eyed peafits better
  3. Almondfits better
  4. Chestnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper. 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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