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Roast Tripe

A roasted tripe stuffed with bread crumbs, parsley, pepper, salt, and egg yolks, basted with butter and served with catsup and lemon pickle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Roast Tripe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the tripe into two oblong pieces.

  2. Make a forcemeat by mixing bread crumbs, chopped parsley, pepper, and salt.

  3. Bind the forcemeat with the egg yolks and spread it on the fat side of the tripe.

  4. Roll the tripe tightly and tie it with kitchen twine.

Roast and serve

  1. Roast the tripe, basting it with butter, for 1 to 1.5 hours.

  2. Serve with melted butter mixed with catsup and lemon pickle.

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 + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, 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 dish, and its fat side carries the forcemeat as it roasts.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and bulk out the forcemeat so it holds together rather than running.
Egg yolks
Bind the forcemeat, helping the crumbs cling together and set as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and promotes browning on the outside during roasting.

The step that matters

Roll the tripe tightly and tie it with kitchen twine. A loose roll lets the forcemeat escape and the layers separate during roasting. Firm, even tying keeps the filling inside and the piece holding its shape as it cooks.

“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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