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Roast Goose

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,026 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Roast Goose

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Weigh, dress, stuff, and truss the goose.

  2. Place the goose on a rack in a roasting pan and season with salt and pepper.

  3. Pour 1 cup of boiling water and 1 tablespoon of salt into the pan.

  4. Cover tightly and cook for the specified time, then pour off the fat that has collected in the pan.

  5. Cook uncovered, basting frequently with boiling salted water.

  6. Serve with Apple Sauce or Spiced Currants.

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. Pepper + appletop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,026 recipes

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

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

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