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Goose Stuffed with Potatoes

A goose stuffed with mashed potatoes, served with a giblet gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Goose Stuffed with Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the stuffing

  1. Stuff the goose with the mashed potatoes mixed with milk, butter, pepper, and salt.

Make the gravy

  1. In a pot, stew the giblets in a little water until tender.

  2. Thicken the giblet broth with butter and flour, then season with pepper and salt.

  3. Remove all giblets except the liver and heart, mince them, and add back to the gravy.

  4. Serve the goose with both the gravy and the giblet sauce.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  3. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Mashed potatoes form the bulk of the stuffing, giving it a soft, moist body.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, softening the mash and helping the gravy thicken smoothly.
Flour
Thickens the giblet broth into a gravy when cooked with butter.
Milk
Adds moisture and creaminess to the mashed potato stuffing.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Shallotfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, butter, pepper, liver, flour. 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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