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Sheep's Trotters, Marinaded

Marinated sheep trotters are boiled, seasoned, battered, and fried, served with tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Sheep's Trotters, Marinaded

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the trotters

  1. Boil the trotters for 3.5 hours.

  2. Drain the trotters and let them cool.

  3. Cut the trotters into neat serving pieces.

  4. Sprinkle salt and pepper over the pieces.

  5. Add vinegar and oil to the pieces.

  6. Toss the trotters in the marinate.

  7. Let them sit for 1 hour, turning occasionally.

Make the batter

  1. Mix flour, a pinch of salt, and water in a bowl until smooth.

  2. Separate the eggs.

  3. Beat the yolks with olive oil.

  4. Stir the yolk mixture into the flour mixture.

  5. Whisk the egg whites.

  6. Fold the egg whites into the batter 10 minutes before frying.

Cook and serve

  1. Dip the marinated trotters in the batter.

  2. Fry in hot fat for about 10 minutes until browned.

  3. Alternatively, roll the trotters in breadcrumbs.

  4. Grill the breadcrumb-coated trotters.

  5. Serve on a napkin with tomato sauce or sauce piquant.

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. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Vinegar + olivetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sheep's trotters
Provide the main meat and gelatinous body after boiling and marinating.
Eggs
Egg whites add lightness and the yolks enrich the batter for a crisp coating.
Flour
Forms the base of the batter that coats and crisps the trotters when fried.
Vinegar
Acidity in the marinade tenderizes the meat and adds a sharp flavor.
Olive oil
Adds fat and richness to the yolk mixture, helping the batter brown.

The step that matters

Fold the egg whites into the batter 10 minutes before frying. Whipped egg whites trap air that gives the batter lightness; if they are folded in too early they deflate and the coating turns heavy and dense.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, vinegar, flour, egg, olive):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, vinegar, flour, egg, olive. 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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