Name: Roast Tripe
Ingredients: cleaned and boiled tripe; sausage meat; thinly sliced ham; drippings; slices of lemon or orange

Why it works: Meat and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,095 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Roast Tripe

Ingredients

Directions

Take a large, even piece of cleaned and boiled tripe.
Spread a layer of sausage meat and thinly sliced ham on the tripe.
Roll the tripe up tightly and tie it with strings.
Roast or bake the tripe, basting it well with drippings.
Serve with slices of lemon or orange.

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.

Meat + hamtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,095 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Meat + lemontop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,817 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Ham + lemontop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,788 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).