Skip to main content
Main

Tripe for Invalids

A stew of tripe and lean beef simmered with mustard, sugar, salt, and cornflour thickening.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Beef and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,664 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Tripe for Invalids

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the tripe, cut it into squares, and remove almost all the fat.

  2. Cut the lean beef into squares.

Make the stew

  1. Place the tripe and beef in a stewpan with cold water, mustard, sugar, and salt.

  2. Bring to a boil, skim carefully, then reduce heat and let simmer gently for 3 hours.

Thicken and serve

  1. Mix cornflour with cold water to form a smooth paste.

  2. Stir the paste into the sauce and boil gently for a few minutes.

  3. Serve the meat on a hot dish and pour the sauce over it.

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. Beef + mustardtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

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

  2. Mustard + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,424 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Beef + sugartop 37% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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 stew, becoming tender through long, gentle simmering.
Lean beef
Adds meaty flavour and substance to the stew during the long simmer.
Cornflour
Thickens the cooking liquid into a smooth sauce when boiled with it.

The step that matters

Skimming after the boil. Skimming removes foam and loose fat that rise as the liquid first heats, keeping the sauce clear and clean-tasting over the long simmer.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sugar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, sugar. 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.

You might also like

Roast BeefRoast Beef211 recipesBeef LoafBeef Loaf175 recipesCorned BeefCorned Beef87 recipesBeef BrothBeef Broth67 recipes