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Tripe Lyonnaise

Tripe Lyonnaise is a sautéed tripe dish flavored with butter, onion, parsley, vinegar, salt, cayenne pepper, and served with tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Tripe Lyonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the tripe

  1. In a frying pan, melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the chopped onion and fry until golden brown.

  3. Stir in the tripe, parsley, vinegar, salt, and cayenne pepper, and cook while stirring to prevent burning.

Serve

  1. Spread tomato sauce on a platter, add the tripe mixture, and serve.

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

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

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 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. Parsley + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

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

  5. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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 carries its texture.
Butter
Adds fat for frying and a rich, savoury flavour.
Onion
Softens and browns in the butter, adding sweetness and depth.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens the flavour of the rich tripe.

The step that matters

Keep the tripe stirring while it cooks. Tripe and onion are rich in sugars and proteins that scorch quickly over direct heat. Constant stirring at medium heat keeps the pan from burning and lets the vinegar and seasonings blend evenly into the mixture.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, parsley, vinegar, pepper, tomato, sauce):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, parsley, vinegar, pepper, tomato, sauce. 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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