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Fried Tripe

Fried tripe is a dish of boiled tripe coated in a thin batter and fried until brown.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Fried Tripe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tripe

  1. Clean the tripe thoroughly and boil it in cold water for six hours.

  2. Cut the boiled tripe into pieces suitable for frying.

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, mix the egg, milk, and salt.

  2. Add enough flour to make a thin batter.

Fry and serve

  1. Dip the tripe pieces into the batter and fry them in deep oil until brown.

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

What each ingredient does

Tripe
Forms the main body of the dish, becoming tender after long boiling before frying.
Egg
Binds the batter and helps it cling to the tripe while it sets in the oil.
Flour
Thickens the liquid into a batter that coats the tripe and forms a crisp, browned crust.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness to the batter, giving a smoother coating.

The step that matters

Frying until brown. The batter is thin, so oil must be hot enough to set the coating quickly. Frying too cool lets the batter soak up oil and turn greasy instead of crisp and browned.

“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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