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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Tripe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the tripe by cleaning it thoroughly.

  2. Broil the tripe and serve it with melted butter.

  3. Fry the tripe after breading or dipping in fritter batter, and serve with fried onions.

  4. Stew the tripe with onions in white sauce.

  5. Stew the tripe with tomatoes, garlic, red peppers, olive oil, Worcestershire sauce, sliced onions, and meat gravy for 'Creole style'.

  6. Stew in Espagnole sauce with fried onions.

  7. Stew in rich tomato sauce.

  8. Stew in sauce Poulette and serve with toast.

  9. Bake in a rich white onion sauce.

  10. Grill and serve with tartar sauce.

  11. Curry the tripe and serve with fancy croutons.

  12. Make a fricassee by stewing in a sauce Veloute.

  13. Spread sausage meat inside the tripe, roll it up, bake, and baste with tomato sauce; serve with some of the sauce and garnish with sausage balls.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, olive, sauce, meat, tomato, garlic, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Eggplantfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, olive, sauce, meat, tomato, garlic, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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