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Boiled Goose

A boiled goose seasoned with salt, pepper, onion, sage, bread dressing, served with giblet sauce and gooseberry jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage 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 ↓

Boiled Goose

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the goose overnight in sweet milk.

  2. Wash the goose and let it stand in cold water for one hour.

  3. Fill the body with well-seasoned bread dressing, using salt, pepper, onions, and sage.

  4. Tie the goose in a thin cheesecloth.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil for two hours.

  2. Serve with giblet sauce and gooseberry jam.

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 + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

  2. Sage + gooseberrytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pepper + gooseberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Goose
Forms the main body of the dish, and its long slow boil makes the meat tender.
Bread dressing
Fills the body of the goose, absorbing juices and flavoring the meat from inside.
Sage
Adds a savory, aromatic herbal flavor to the stuffing.
Onion
Adds savory sweetness and aroma to the bread dressing.

Swap the gooseberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, onion, sage, bread, sauce):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Gooseberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, onion, sage, bread, sauce. 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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