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Roast Goose

Roast goose stuffed with your choice of filling, served with beef gravy, apple sauce, and mashed turnips.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and turnip work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 171 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Roast Goose

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick, draw, and truss the goose, removing all stub feathers and singeing off any long hairs.

  2. Wipe the inside of the goose and fill it with stuffing.

Roast and serve

  1. Hang the goose before a hot, clear fire and roast for about 1.5 hours.

  2. Serve hot with strong beef gravy and apple sauce.

  3. Accompany with mashed turnips to balance the richness of the goose.

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.

Explore the science

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. Apple + turniptop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Beef + turniptop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,940 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  3. Sauce + turniptop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together943 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Beef + appletop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,364 recipes

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

  5. Beef + saucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,650 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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 rich fat that renders during roasting, giving flavour and juiciness.
Stuffing
Fills the cavity, adding moisture and flavour as the goose cooks around it.
Strong beef gravy
Adds savoury depth and moisture to balance the lean, rich meat.
Apple sauce
Its acidity and sweetness cut through the richness of the goose fat.
Mashed turnips
Their mild sweetness and starch balance the richness of the goose.

The step that matters

Hang the goose before a hot, clear fire. Goose has a thick layer of fat under the skin. Hanging it so heat reaches the bird evenly lets that fat render and the skin crisp, while the meat cooks through without burning.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sauce, turnip):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, sauce, turnip. 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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