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Baked Teipe

A baked tripe dish cooked with onions, thyme, peppercorns, salt, and ale or cider or vinegar and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and thyme are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,171 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Baked Teipe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the tripe into pieces.

Bake

  1. Place the tripe in an earthen pot with sliced onions, thyme, peppercorns, and salt.

  2. Moisten with ale, cider, or a mixture of vinegar and water.

  3. Bake or stew the tripe for 1.5 hours.

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.

Explore the science

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 + thymetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Thyme + cidertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together239 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Onion + cidertop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,775 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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 with long, slow cooking.
Sliced onions
Add sweetness and aroma as they soften into the cooking liquid.
Ale or cider or vinegar and water
Provides moisture and acidity that help soften the tripe during slow cooking.

The step that matters

Bake or stew the tripe for 1.5 hours. Tripe is tough connective tissue that needs long, gentle cooking with liquid to break down and become tender. Cooking too briefly or at a harsh boil can leave it rubbery or dry.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (thyme, cider):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against thyme, cider. 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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