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Tripe and Potatoes, Family Style

A savory stew of tripe, leeks, and potatoes simmered in butter, flour, bouillon, and white wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Tripe and Potatoes, Family Style

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook the base

  1. Slice the white ends of the leeks very fine.

  2. In a saucepan, melt the butter and simmer the leeks for 5 minutes.

  3. Add the flour and simmer again.

Simmer the stew

  1. Stir in the tripe, bouillon, sliced potatoes, parsley, salt, pepper, and white wine.

  2. Cover and cook for 1 hour, or until everything is soft.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Leek + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together759 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Leek + potatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Leek + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together328 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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 and becomes tender during the long, slow cooking.
Leeks
Soften in butter to build a sweet, mild onion-like base for the stew.
Butter
Adds richness and carries the flavor of the leeks into the stew.
Flour
Lightly thickens the cooking liquid so the stew has body.
Potatoes
Break down slightly during cooking, adding starch that gives the stew more body.

The step that matters

Cover and cook until everything is soft. Tripe is tough and needs a long, gentle simmer to become tender. Cooking too fast or at a hard boil can leave it rubbery, and the stew needs the full time for the starches and connective tissue to soften.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (leek, butter, flour, parsley, pepper, white wine):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against leek, butter, flour, parsley, pepper, white wine. 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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