Roast Goose

Ingredients

• a very young goose
• one cup of boiling water
• salt
• flour
• thin slices of fat salt pork

Method

1. 1

   Cover the breast with thin slices of fat salt pork and place in the oven.

2. 2

   Cook for three-quarters of an hour, basting often with the fat in the pan.

3. 3

   Remove the pan from the oven and drain off all the fat.

4. 4

   Remove the slices of pork, sprinkle again with salt, dredge with flour, and return to the oven.

5. 5

   When the flour is delicately browned, add boiling water and baste often.

6. 6

   Sprinkle lightly with salt and dredge with flour again.

7. 7

   Cook until tender, from one and one-half to three hours, depending on the age of the bird.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty-two Sunday dinners (1913) by Elizabeth O. Hiller, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

thin slices of fat salt pork, and place in the oven. Cook three-quarters of an hour, basting often with the fat in the pan. Then remove pan from oven and drain off all the fat. Remove the slices of pork and sprinkle again with salt and dredge with flour and return to oven. When the flour is delicately browned, add one cup of boiling water and baste often; JTTs'un.iay $2 SuTiday Dinners 17 add more water when necessary. Sprinkle lightly with salt and again dredge with flour. Cook until tender, from one and one-half to three hours, according to the age of the bird. If you have a very young goose it is infinitely better to steam or braise it until tender, then dredge it with salt and flour and brown it richly in the oven. Serve on a bed of cress, garnish with Baked Snow or Jonathan apples. CHANTILLY APPLE SAUCE (WITH HORSERADISH) Pare, core and cut in quarters, five medium-sized Greenings. Cook with very little water; when quite dry, rub through a fine puree strainer. To the pulp add one-half cup granulated sugar, five tablespoons grated horseradish, then fold in an equal quantity of whipped cream. Serve at once with roast goose, ducks or goslings. ONIONS AU GRATIN Cook one quart of uniform-sized, silver-skinned onions in boiling salted water. When quite tender, drain and turn into a baking dish; cover with Cream Sauce (see Page 15l), sprinkle the top with fine buttered cracker crumbs and finish cooking. Brown crumbs delicately. ENDIVE, CELERY AND GREEN PEPPER SALAD Select crisp, well-bleached heads of endive, separate the leaves, keeping the green leaves separate from the bleached; wash and dry. Dispose the leaves on individual plates of ample size. Arrange the green leaves first, then the bleached leaves until a nest has been formed; fill the centers with the hearts of celery cut in one-half inch pieces. Cut a slice from the stem end of crisp red and green pepjjers, remove the seeds and veins and cut in the thinnest shreds possible, using the shears. Strew these shreds over each portion and, just before serving, marinate each with French Dressing. VANILLA ICE CREAM % cup sugar. 1 quart cream. H cup water. IJ^ tablespoons vanilla. 18 5^ Sunday Dinners itTZ First Sunday Process: Make a syrup by boiling sugar and water three minutes. Cool slightly and add to cream, add vanilla and freeze in the usual way. Pack in a brick-shape mold. Bury in salt and ice, let stand several hours. Remove from mold to serving platter and pour around each portion Hot Chocolate Sauce. HOT CHOCOLATE SAUCE Melt two squares chocolate in a sauce-pan, add one cup sugar, one tablespoon butter and two-thirds cup boiling water. Simmer fifteen minutes. Cool slightly and add three-fourths teaspoon vanilla. COCOANUT CUBES Use recipe for Bride's Cake (see recipe on Page 175). Bake in a sheet. When cool cut in two-inch cubes and cover each cube with Boiled Frosting; sprinkle thickly with fresh grated cocoanut. CHOCOLATE NUT CAKE 3^ cup Cottolene. 4 teaspoons baking powder. 2 cups sugar. 34 teaspoon salt. 4 eggs. 2 squares chocolate melted. 1 cup milk. 5€ cup English walnut meats broken 23^ cups flour

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