Heart to Hearth Cookery

Roasting a Goose

 Christmas and roast goose are frequently paired together.  In Victorian England, the goose for Christmas dinner was a tradition for some.  The goose has many religious ties and the Christian celebration of Christmas is just one of many.  Charles Dickens wrote In a Christmas Carol that in the Cratchit family you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course.  But Scrooge sent a young boy to the Poulterer’s to fetch the big prize turkey for the Cratchit’s Christmas dinner.  The goose is roasting attached to my bottle jack in the hearth.