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Double Tripe En Fricassee

A stew of cleaned tripe, onions, garlic, cloves, and stock, finished with eggs, cream, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Double Tripe En Fricassee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tripe

  1. Clean the tripe thoroughly, scraping and washing it in several pots of boiling hot water.

  2. Soak the tripe in cold water.

  3. Stew the tripe with onions, salt, garlic, and cloves for 5 to 6 hours.

Make the fricassee

  1. Melt butter in a stewpan and add flour to the melted butter.

  2. Cut the cooked tripe into pieces and add them to the pan with stock. Simmer for 15 minutes.

  3. Mix in beaten eggs, a little cream, and lemon juice. Do not let the mixture boil.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,893 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Clove + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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, becoming tender through long, slow stewing.
Butter
Enriches the sauce and carries flavour through the roux.
Flour
Thickens the butter and stock into a smooth base for the sauce.
Eggs
Enrich and thicken the sauce when gently heated, giving it a creamy body.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, silky texture to the sauce.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich, creamy sauce.

The step that matters

Do not let the mixture boil. Egg yolks in the sauce can curdle and turn grainy if they get too hot. Keeping the mixture below a simmer lets the eggs thicken it smoothly.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, butter, flour, egg, cream, lemon):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, butter, flour, egg, cream, lemon. 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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