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Tripe fried in beer batter or egg yolks, served with melted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beer and butter work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 680 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Tripe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the tripe into small square pieces.

  2. Dip them in small beer batter or yolks of eggs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in good dripping until light brown.

  2. Remove and let drain for a minute.

  3. Serve with plain melted butter.

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. Beer + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together680 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Tripe
Serves as the main ingredient that is battered and fried into pieces.
Small beer batter
Coats the tripe so it forms a crisp, golden shell when fried.
Good dripping
Hot fat that fries the coated pieces, browning the batter and crisping its surface.
Plain melted butter
Adds richness and a smooth, fatty flavour as a dipping sauce.

The step that matters

Fry in good dripping until light brown. The fat must be hot enough to set the batter quickly; if it is too cool, the coating absorbs grease and turns soggy instead of crisp and golden.

“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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