Apache Wild Goose Food

APACHE WILD GOOSE

Steps:

• Boil giblets until tender, remove skin, and chop fine.
• Combine with cornbread crumbs, onions and apple. Mix well and add salt and pepper, sage, garlic and other seasonings to taste.
• Moisten and stuff goose.
• Place goose in roasting pan and spread with about 2 tablespoons of butter, and then sprinkle with a little flour.
• Roast in 350 degree oven until done, which will take about 15 to 20 minutes per pound.
• Baste often.

WHITLEY " GOOSE "

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C/Gas 6).
• Place the onions in a saucepan and cover with lightly salted water. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 15-20 minutes or until the onions are tender. Drain well and allow to cool a little.
• Chop the onions roughly and mix with half the cheese. Season to taste with pepper, and salt if desired, to taste.
• Butter an ovenproof dish and pour in the cream. Lightly stir in the onion mixture and top with the remaining cheese.
• Bake for 20-30 minutes, or until golden.
• Serve as an accompaniment to cold meat or ham or accompanied by crusty bread.

PERFECT SPICED ROAST GOOSE

Steps:

• For the marinade; in a large saucepan combine 2 cups water with 2/3 cups soy sauce, celery, dried onion and 1 tablespoon sugar; bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook uncovered until the celery is tender, stirring frequently.
• Cool mixture to room temperature.
• Pour the marinade into a large resealable bag; add in whole goose, then seal bag and turn to coat.
• Refrigerate for 4 hours turning several times.
• After 4 hours of refrigeration time discard marinade.
• Sprinkle JUST THE INSIDE of the goose cavity with salt and pepper (you will season the outside of the goose with salt the last 1-1/2 hours of cooking).
• Rub the outside of the goose with vegetable oil.
• Place goose on a shallow roasting pan.
• Set oven to 325 degrees.
• In a small cup or bowl combine the cinnamon with garlic powder and anissed; rub spice mixture all over the outside of the goose.
• Bake UNCOVERED for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile while the goose is cooking; in a small saucepan combine the vinegar with 1 tablespoon soy sauce, honey, remaining 2 cups water; bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered until reduced by about half.
• Remove the goose from oven and baste the goose generously with honey mixture.
• Sprinkle lightly with salt.
• Return to oven and bake UNCOVERED for another 30 minutes.
• Remove from oven and cover with foil and return to oven to bake for about 1-1/2 to 2 more hours or until a meat thermometer reads 180 degrees (basting occasionally with remaining honey mixture if desired).
• Let stand covered with foil for about 20 minutes or more before carving (do not prick with a fork or slice during this time or juices will flow out of the goose).
• For the gravy; strain pan juices, then skim and discard any fat.
• In a small saucepan combine cornstarch with cold water until smooth; whisk into the pan juices and bring to a boil, cook and stir for about 2 minutes or until thickened.
• Serve the gravy with the goose.
• Delicious!

ORANGE WILD GOOSE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).
• Place flour in bag large enough to fit goose. Shake to coat the inside of bag.
• Mix all other ingredients except goose and pour into bag. Place bag in deep roasting pan.
• Place bird in bag and turn gently to coat all sides of goose with bag contents.
• Secure bag with twist tie about 2 inches from top.
• Prick bag in several places on top to vent.
• Cook goose 2 ½ to 3 hours or until tender.
• Remove bird to hot platter and pour sauce into a heavy skillet.
• Skim off excess fat and thicken gravy to suit.

WILD GOOSE

Steps:

• Soak plucked and cleaned goose overnight in well salted water.
• Rinse and dry, then stuff with 2 onions and 2 apples, both quartered.
• Place breast side up in open roaster pan and cover with 2 strips thick bacon.
• Brown in 475 degree oven until bacon is crisp.
• Take all fat from pan and discard.
• Remove bacon.
• Add to the pan 1 onion, quartered, 1 carrot, quartered, 1 cut up stalk of celery, 1 bay leaf, 2 or 3 sprigs of parsley, 1/2 teaspoon thyme, 2 cans consomme with 2 cans water, and 1 cup of dry red wine.
• Cover the pan and roast at 375 degrees for 2 to 2-1/2 hours, basting often.
• Goose should be done so that meat will readily pull off carcass.
• Remove goose from roaster and place on warm platter.
• Remove and discard stuffing.
• Strain the gravy and thicken with 1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoons cold water.
• Correct seasoning if necessary.
• Serve with wild rice.

WILD GOOSE IN A BAG

Steps:

• soak bird in salted water x 1 hour to remove blood
• examine for pellets and feathers. Remove if found
• prepare browning bag with flour shaken inside and place into pan large enough to hold bird and bag without it hanging over edge
• Place in bird cavity -carrots celery and apple + herbs
• pat dry and coat with olive oil
• sprinkle with poultry seasoning
• place into bag in pan
• add french onion soup over top of bird and red wine into cavity
• place 2 bacon strips on top of bird
• seal bag and make 6 slits
• Bake at 350 x 20-30 minutes per pound. its done when leg wiggles easily.
• let cool 30 minutes before carving
• skim fat from liquid and reduce liquid
• thicken with cornstarch mixture.

COLONIAL GOOSE

Steps:

• For the marinade:
• Combine the ingredients and set aside while you prepare the meat and the stuffing.
• For the stuffing:
• Melt the butter and honey over low heat, add the other ingredients and combine well.
• Force the stuffing into the cavity in the meat, and sew it up with fine string.
• Place the leg into a large oven baking bag sitting in a baking dish large enough for the lamb, and then add the marinade mixture.
• The meat is best prepared early in the morning.
• Tend it all day, regularly turning it over in the marinade throughout the day.
• Cook at 350 F (180 C) for two hours but check on the progress at 90 minutes.
• If you don't have an oven bag, just place it in the roasting pan as you normally would but if the meat looks like it may be over browning, it can be covered by foil.
• Remove the string before carving.
• Strain the marinade and use three or four tablespoons of the liquor to make gravy.