To roast a Green Goose

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 45 min Total: 45 min
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (5)
  1. When your goose is ready dressed, put in a good lump of butter, spit it, lay it down, finger it well, dust it with flour, baste it well with fresh butter.
  2. Baste it three or four different times with cold butter; it will make the flesh rise better than if you was to baste it out of the dripping-pan.
  3. If it is a large one it will take three quarters of an hour to roast it.
  4. When you think it is enough, dredge it with flour, baste it till it is a fine froth, and your goose a nice brown, and dish it up with a little brown gravy under it.
  5. Garnish with a crust of bread grated round the edge of your dish.
Original Text
To roast a Green Goose. WHEN your goose is ready dressed, put in a good lump of butter, spit it, lay it down, finge it well, dust it with flour, baste it well with fresh butter; baste it three or four different times with cold butter, it will make the flesh rise better than if you was to baste it out of the dripping-pan; if it is a large one it will take three quarters of an hour to roast it; when you think it is enough, dredge it with flour, baste it till it is a fine froth, and your goose a nice brown, and dish it up with a little brown gravy under it: garnish with a crust of bread grated round the edge of your dish.
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