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Thick Tripe Fricasee

A thick stew of cleaned tripe simmered with onions, garlic, cloves, peppercorns, bay leaves, butter, flour, and broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Thick Tripe Fricasee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tripe

  1. Scrape and clean the tripe thoroughly.

  2. Wash the tripe in several boiling waters.

  3. Rinse the tripe in fresh water.

Cook and finish

  1. Boil the tripe with sliced onions, garlic, cloves, peppercorns, and bay leaves.

  2. After boiling, add butter and a little flour to the pot, then moisten the mixture with a little broth and mix well.

  3. Serve.

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Onion + clovetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,901 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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, giving the fricassee its chewy, tender texture after long cooking.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, carrying flavour through the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the broth into a smooth, cohesive sauce.
Broth
Moistens the mixture and forms the liquid base of the sauce.

The step that matters

Adding the flour to the butter. Flour needs to be cooked briefly in the fat before liquid is added; this removes raw starch taste and helps prevent lumps when the broth goes in.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, butter, flour):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Jalapenofits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, butter, 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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