SC - "Wanda Pease" <wandapease at bigfoot.com>: Fw: Cooking disaster story from a friend (long ago and far away_

[LYN M PARKINSON]

A dear friend sent this, and I had to share, even though 2 or 3 of you
were on the 'copy' list.

Regards,

Allison
allilyn at juno.com, Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands, Pittsburgh, PA
Kingdom of Aethelmearc
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Subject: Fw: Cooking disaster story from a friend (long ago and far away_
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:16:56 -0700
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Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 3:38 PM

>A friend sent me this reference a question I had about roasting a
Goose for
>Easter Dinner.  It's late, but I suspect you will laugh as much as I
did!
>
>
>
>When I was in college, I used to cook Thanksgiving dinners for a
crew.  The
>turkey was done the day before.  On Thanksgiving day, I roasted two
geese.
>Domestic geese have a LOT of fat, so you must cook them until the oil
stops
>coming out of them, and draw the rendered oil out of the pan with a
sringe
>several times.  I searched out a recipe that put much of that oil to
use.
>
>Brandied pears are delicious, and rich beyond compare.  When the
geese come
>out of the oven, you take a big baking dish lined with cored pear
halves,
>and pour in a cup each of brandy and goose oil.  Bake for a half hour
while
>the geese rest and are carved.
>
>The second year I did this, I was in a hurry when I pulled the pears
out of
>the oven.  Most of the sauce poured out onto the bottom of the oven.
Most
>of the alcohol in the brandy had not yet boiled out, and that made a
good
>igniter.  The goose oil made an excellent sustainer.  There was a
WHUMP
>noise and a HUGE ball of flame jumped out at me from inside the oven.
A bit
>of my beard was singed before I could jump back.  I reached for a
large pan
>filled with water, and some peels
>from veggies or whatever that happened to be in the sink at the time
and
>tossed the water into the oven.  The result was a WHOOSH and a large
billow
>of steam, long with some tinkling sounds as the light bulb in the
oven
>broke, the gas flame was extinguished, and so on.  I jumped back
again, in
>time to avoid further burns, jumped forward to slam the oven shut,
and THEN
>I panicked, and ran through my guests, over the top of the dinner
table and
>out the door.  I'm told I was shreiking like a banshee.  My friends
still
>talk of the flash of light visible around the corner in the living
room, the
>sound, and their amazement at seeing me vaulting the entire table.
>
>The NEXT year, I was NOT in a hurry when I removed those pears from
the
>oven.  Still, as a joke, one of my guests stood by holding a fire
>extinguisher.  To my amazement, I discovered a HOLE in one of the
>potholders!  Ouch!  Spill!  Whoosh!  This time, I  knew better than
to toss
>water on it. (It had been a bear to get the remains of the light bulb
out) I
>slammed the oven door and spun the thermostat dial  to zero.  Again,
after
>less than a second of quick action to solve the immediate problem, I
>panicked, dashing straight into my amazed guest who was holding the
fire
>extinguisher.  Neither of us was burned, except the burn on my finger
>through the potholder, but the fire extinguished was smashed in the
>collision and jammed off, useless.
>
>Two years in a row, and it became a tradition! It was about 1982, but
I
>still get asked if I still do my annual goose explosion.  That was
the last
>time I roasted a goose, though.
>
>Eventually, an old friend told the tale to my wife.  I am now
permanently
>barred from roasting geese.
>
>Doug Freyburger, Collective Technologies
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


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