{"id":5150,"date":"2012-12-17T13:11:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T18:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2012-12-17T13:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T18:11:33","slug":"how-to-roast-a-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5150","title":{"rendered":"How to Roast a Goose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe in your Christmas reading, you have wondered about cooking a goose. You&#8217;ve read about the Cratchit&#8217;s Christmas dinner: &#8220;There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn&#8217;t believe there ever was such a goose cooked. Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed, as Mrs Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn&#8217;t ate it all at last. Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows.&#8221;  Here, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2012\/12\/mrs-beeton-roast-goose\/\">Isabella Beeton writes on how to choose and prepare this bird.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sippitysup.com\/smoking-bishop-hot-holiday-drink-packs-punch\">Smoking Bishop<\/a> drink, which is not the same as the cheese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stinkingbishop.co.uk\/\">Stinking Bishop.<\/a> Honestly, I don&#8217;t think I would like either of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe in your Christmas reading, you have wondered about cooking a goose. You&#8217;ve read about the Cratchit&#8217;s Christmas dinner: &#8220;There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn&#8217;t believe there ever was such a goose cooked. Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by apple-sauce and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Roast a Goose<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}