How to Clean Tripe
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the lime
If using lime, mix it with cold water until liquid.
Treat the tripe
Sew the emptied tripe to prevent lime from entering.
Soak in lime-water for 30 minutes before scraping.
Wash off lime to avoid skin irritation.
If using ashes, sprinkle them on the emptied tripe and wash with cold water.
Submerge in boiling water for 5-6 hours.
If neither lime nor ashes are available, scald repeatedly with boiling salted water and scrape until clear.
Soak in cold salted water for a week, changing the water daily.
After treatment, soak in salted cold water for 24 hours.
Cook
Wash in fresh water and boil in salted boiling water until tender.
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
What each ingredient does
- Tripe
- Is the main food being cleaned and cooked until tender.
- Lime-water or wood-ash lye
- Alkaline agent that loosens the tripe's outer lining so it can be scraped away.
The step that matters
Washing off the lime. Lime is alkaline and can irritate skin, and leftover lime left in the tripe would affect its taste and safety, so it must be rinsed thoroughly before cooking.
“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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