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Beef Tripe, to Roast

Roasted beef tripe rolled with rich veal stuffing, basted in butter and dredged in flour, served with sliced lemon and unmelted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Beef Tripe, to Roast

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the tripe

  1. Boil the tripe for at least 1 hour.

  2. Cut the boiled tripe into convenient-sized pieces.

  3. Spread the pieces out.

  4. Place a layer of rich veal stuffing on each piece.

  5. Skewer the tripe pieces.

  6. Tie the tripe securely into rolls.

Roast and serve

  1. Baste the rolls continually with butter.

  2. Dredge the rolls with flour.

  3. Roast in a 400°F (200°C) oven for about 45 minutes.

  4. Serve with sliced lemon and unmelted butter.

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. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Veal + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Flour + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,381 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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 rolls and becomes tender after long boiling and roasting.
Rich veal stuffing
Adds savory filling and moisture inside each roll as the tripe cooks.
Butter
Bastes the rolls to add richness and promote browning on the outside.
Flour
Dredged over the rolls to help form a dry, browned surface while roasting.

The step that matters

Tie the tripe securely into rolls. If the rolls are loose, the stuffing can escape and the layers may separate during roasting. Firm, even rolls hold their filling and cook more evenly.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Raisinfits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Coconutfits less well
  4. Peachfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, butter, flour. 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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