Roast Stuffed Goose with Spiced Apples

Ingredients:

Spiced Apples

• 10 whole apples
• 1 cup vinegar
• 5 cups sugar
• whole cloves
• 1 tsp cinnamon

Stuffing

• 2 loaves bread
• 1 lb. potato
• 1 diced raw onion
• handful raisins
• sage
• savory
• grease drippings
• needle and cord, to tie

Accompaniments

• boiled potato
• squash
• fried cabbage
• bread

Roast Stuffed Goose with Spiced Apples
Put bird in a covered roast pan and put into the wood stove. Baste when cooking. Time: 3 hours
Spiced Apples
Take whole 10 apples, peeled, and 1 cup of vinegar and 5 cups of sugar.
Boil the vinegar and sugar for 5 minutes, then add the fruit to the syrup.
Bring to a boil.
Fill jars with apples and syrup.
Repeat this process for 3 days in succession.
On the third day, add whole cloves in apples and sprinkle 1teaspoon of cinnamon into the syrup.
Place back into large jar.
Place around goose on plate or serve as a side dish.
Stuffing
Mix 2 loaves of bread broken into small 1/8-inch squares, 1pound potatoes mashed, 2 diced raw onions, sage, a handful of raisins, savory and drippings of grease to make it stick together.
Fill the cavity of the goose under the breastbone and stitch with a cord.
Put in oven and roast covered for 2 hours.
Uncover during the last hour.
The temperature is kept consistent throughout the cooking process.
Gravy
Made from drippings after meat is cooked. Using the pan from the bird, scrape the bottom of the pan, and add water and flour to the drippings to thicken. Salt and pepper to taste.
Accompaniments
Boil the potatoes in a cast iron pot on the wood stove. Drain. Mash with a wooden pounder. Add salt, pepper and butter to taste.
Peel the squash. Then boil in a cast iron pot on the wood stove. Drain. Mash with a wooden pounder. Add cinnamon and brown sugar before serving.
Shred cabbage. Fry with lard in a frying pan on top of the wooden stove. Salt and pepper to taste.
Buy whole wheat from the bakery.
 

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