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Tripe Broiled

Tripe Broiled is a dish of boiled tripe served with a butter and onion sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,259 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Tripe Broiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tripe

  1. Soak the tripe in milk for several hours, or wash it in cold water if soaking is not possible.

  2. Cut the tripe into pieces about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide.

Cook the tripe

  1. In a saucepan, cover the tripe with equal parts of cold milk and water.

  2. Bring the mixture to a boil.

  3. Add the onions, salt, and peppercorns to the boiling mixture.

  4. Cover and simmer gently until the tripe is tender.

  5. Remove the onions from the pot.

Make the sauce and serve

  1. Mince the onions finely.

  2. Press the minced onions through a coarse sieve.

  3. Mix the minced onions with melted butter to create a thick sauce.

  4. Serve the tripe on a hot dish with the sauce poured over it, or serve the sauce separately.

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. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Onion + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,226 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Tripe
Forms the main body of the dish, becoming tender through long, gentle simmering.
Milk
Softens the tripe during soaking and adds mild richness to the cooking liquid.
Onions
Add aroma and sweetness to the cooking liquid, then thicken the sauce when pressed.
Melted butter
Adds fat and smooth richness, helping bind the onion sauce.

The step that matters

Simmer gently until tender. Tripe is tough connective tissue. A gentle simmer lets collagen slowly break down into gelatin, while a hard boil can toughen the muscle fibres and leave the texture rubbery.

Swap the mustard

The recipe marks mustard as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, onion, butter, vinegar):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, onion, butter, vinegar. 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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