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How to Stew Tripe

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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

How to Stew Tripe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. First clean well and soak in salt water several days. Then boil till perfectly done, and keep in a cool place. Cut into small strips, flour ihem, and to a stew-panful put a piece of butter the size of an egg. Stir till thoroughly heated, then pour in a half pint of rich cream. Stir until thickened., Serve hoi.— Mrs. T. R. Mitchell.

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  3. One pint of sour milk, one tea-spoonful of soda ; beat the ■whites of five eggs and the yelks of two, one large spoonful of butter, one table-spoonful of salt, one pint sweet cream mixed with the yelks. Put the soda in the buttermilk and pour on the yelks ; after which add enough flour to make a light batter ; and lastly, beat in whites of the eggs. — Mrs. Edward Taylor.

  4. One quart of flour, three eggs beaten separately, a piece of lard size of a hen's egg, half a tea-spoonful of soda, a little salt ; mix with sour cream. — Mrs. Henry Buekner.

  5. Three pints flour, three eggs, well beaten (separately), salt to the taste, one table-spoonful of lard, two tea-spoonfuls cream of tartar, one tea-spoonful of soda ; mix up with sweet milk, oi leave oiF the cream of tartar and use buttermilk and soda. — Miss Maitie Clay.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

999Calories
28 gProtein
44 gFat
121 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sour Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Lard1 tbsp (12.8g)115
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Vehling, Joseph Dommers, 1879-1950. fmo. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Milk + teatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together738 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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