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Potted Tripe

A preserved tripe dish cooked with vegetables, spices, and vinegar, then sealed and baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 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 ↓

Potted Tripe

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Boil, clean, and cut up the fresh tripe.

Assemble and seal

  1. Place the tripe, carrot, turnip, onion, cloves, pepper, bay leaves, and parsley in a jar.

  2. Half cover the ingredients with broth or water, adding vinegar to the liquid.

  3. Make a paste with flour and water to seal the jar's cover.

Bake

  1. Bake in a 300°F (150°C) oven for 6 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.

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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. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Tripe
Is the main ingredient, becoming tender during the long, slow cooking.
Vinegar
Adds acidity to the cooking liquid, which helps soften connective tissue.
Carrot
Adds sweetness and aroma to the cooking liquid.
Onion
Adds savory flavor and aroma to the cooking liquid.

The step that matters

Sealing the jar with flour paste. If the lid is not tightly sealed, steam and liquid escape during the long bake, so the tripe can dry out or cook unevenly. A tight seal keeps moisture in the jar.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, clove, pepper, parsley, vinegar, 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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