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Fricasseed Tripe

A simmered tripe dish with onion, tomato, chilis, egg, butter, vinegar, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,015 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Fricasseed Tripe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a skillet, fry the onion in butter until brown.

  2. Add the tripe and water, then stir in the butter, tomato, chilis, hard boiled egg, vinegar, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and sugar.

  3. Let it simmer gently for 1 hour.

  4. Serve hot.

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. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Onion + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,226 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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 dish and becomes tender during the long gentle simmer.
Onion
Browns in butter to add savory depth and sweetness to the sauce.
Butter
Adds richness and carries flavor when frying the onion.
Tomato
Adds moisture and gentle acidity that brightens the sauce.
Vinegar
Adds sharpness that balances the richness of the butter and tripe.
Hard boiled egg
Adds body and a creamy texture to the sauce as it breaks down.

The step that matters

Simmer gently for 1 hour. A gentle simmer keeps the tripe tender and prevents the sauce from reducing too fast or scorching. A hard boil toughens the protein and can make the tripe rubbery.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, butter, egg, vinegar, pepper, nutmeg, sugar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, butter, egg, vinegar, pepper, nutmeg, sugar. 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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