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Tripe and Tomatoes

Tripe and Tomatoes is a stew of tripe simmered with tomatoes, onion, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Tripe and Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tripe

  1. Cut the tripe into neat pieces and place it in cold water.

  2. Bring to a boil and let it boil for 5 minutes.

  3. Transfer the tripe to cold water and wash and scrape it well.

Make the sauce

  1. Slice the tomatoes and rub them through a sieve.

  2. Mix with the stock or water, and season with pepper and salt.

  3. Pour the mixture into a saucepan, add the sliced onion and the tripe, and bring to a boil.

  4. Simmer gently for 4 hours.

  5. Mix the cornflour smoothly with a little water or stock, then pour it into the saucepan.

  6. Stir until it boils.

Serve

  1. Carefully dish the tripe, season and flavor the sauce to taste, and pour it over the tripe.

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.

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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. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Tripe
Main protein that becomes tender through long, gentle simmering.
Tomatoes
Provide acidity, body and bright flavor to the sauce once sieved.
Cornflour
Thickens the sauce into a smooth coating as it comes to a boil.
Onion
Adds savory aromatic flavor to the simmering sauce.

The step that matters

Simmer gently for 4 hours. A gentle, low simmer softens tripe slowly; a hard boil toughens its proteins and can make the sauce reduce or scorch unevenly.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Eggplantfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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