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Stuffing for Goose

A savory stuffing made with parboiled onions, sage, butter, egg yolk, salt, pepper, and optional goose liver.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Stuffing for Goose

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the onions

  1. Parboil the onions until tender.

  2. Chop the parboiled onions finely.

  3. Finely chop the sage leaves.

Make the stuffing

  1. In a bowl, combine the parboiled onions, chopped sage, and butter.

  2. Work the mixture together with the yolk of the egg.

  3. Season with coarse sea salt and pepper to taste.

  4. Finely mince a portion of the goose liver.

  5. Mix the minced goose liver into the 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. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  3. Onion + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sage + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Onions
Provide the bulk and soft, sweet body of the stuffing.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, keeping the stuffing moist and flavorful.
Yolk of 1 egg
Binds the mixture together so it holds its shape.
Goose liver (in the method)
Adds rich, savory depth and a creamy texture to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Parboil the onions until tender. Onions that are not fully softened before mixing will stay crisp and sharp inside the stuffing. Cooking them through first lets them blend smoothly and gives a sweeter, mellower flavor.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sage, butter, egg, 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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