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Tripe Soup

Tripe soup made with tripe, water, milk, onions, carrot, turnip, flour, salt, pepper, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Tripe Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tripe

  1. Scald the tripe, then scrape it with a dull knife.

  2. Rinse the tripe in hot water.

  3. Cut the tripe into strips 2 inches long and ½ inch wide.

Make the soup

  1. Place the tripe in a pot with 3 quarts of cold water and bring to a boil.

  2. Pare and slice the onions, then add them to the pot.

  3. Peel the carrot and turnip, cut them into small dice, and add them to the pot.

  4. Boil slowly for 1 hour.

  5. Mix the flour with the milk and add the mixture to the pot.

  6. Season with salt, pepper, and chopped parsley.

  7. Serve hot.

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Turnip + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + turniptop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 soup and becomes tender during the long slow boil.
Flour
Mixed with milk and added to the pot, it thickens the soup slightly.
Milk
Mixed with flour and stirred in, it adds richness and body to the broth.
Onions
Add sweetness and aroma as they soften and release flavor into the broth.

The step that matters

Add the flour and milk mixture. Flour lumps if added dry or unmixed; blending it with milk first lets it disperse evenly so the soup thickens smoothly rather than clumping.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, carrot, turnip, flour, pepper, parsley):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Arrowrootfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, carrot, turnip, flour, pepper, parsley. 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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