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Pepper Pot

A hearty soup made with tripe, veal knuckle, dumplings, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Marjoram and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,609 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Pepper Pot

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the broth

  1. Boil the tripe for 6 hours the day before using and save the cooking liquid.

  2. In a separate pot, boil the knuckle of veal.

  3. Combine the veal cooking liquid with the tripe liquid.

Season and finish

  1. Add sweet marjoram, chopped onion, pepper, and coarse sea salt to taste.

  2. Make dumplings and add them to the soup.

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. Marjoram + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

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

  3. Marjoram + oniontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,056 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Veal + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Veal + marjoramtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together525 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

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

What each ingredient does

Tripe
Provides the chewy texture that defines the soup.
Veal knuckle
Adds body and rich savoury flavour to the broth through its collagen and marrow.
Onion
Adds aromatic sweetness and depth to the broth as it cooks.
Dumplings
Add soft, starchy pieces that absorb broth and contrast with the chewy tripe.

The step that matters

Boil the tripe for 6 hours the day before using. Tripe must cook long enough to become tender; undercooked tripe stays rubbery. Cooking it a day ahead lets it chill and firm up, making it easier to slice and skim fat from the cooking liquid before combining.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, marjoram, 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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