Goose should be cooked to the same temperature as other fowl, 165-180 depending on whom you ask. <http://www.modernmaturity.org/departments/2002/food/recipe_guide/recipe_dinner_9.html> I think that a ginger and nutmeg apple pie sounds just fine. May she who likes it not, verily lump it. Selene Colfox selene at earthlink.net