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Tripe a LA Coutance

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and ketchup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Tripe a LA Coutance

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the tripe well in cold water.

  2. Place the tripe in a stewpan and cover with cold water.

  3. Bring to a boil to blanch the tripe.

  4. Remove the tripe, and dry it with a clean cloth.

  5. Cut the tripe into strips about 2 inches wide and 4 inches long.

  6. Slice the bacon into very thin pieces, matching the size of the tripe strips.

  7. Chop the shallot and parsley finely on a board.

  8. Lay a slice of bacon on each strip of tripe, sprinkle with chopped shallot and parsley, roll them up, and tie with string.

  9. Wash, scrape, and slice the carrot.

  10. Peel and slice the onion.

  11. Tie together a sprig of marjoram, thyme, and a bay leaf with string.

  12. Wash the mushrooms and trim the stalks.

  13. Arrange the tripe and bacon rolls in a stewpan.

  14. Add all the vegetables and herbs.

  15. Pour in 1 pint of stock and place the stewpan on the fire.

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. Sauce + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  3. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

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

  5. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, mushroom, shallot, parsley, butter, sauce, ketchup):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, mushroom, shallot, parsley, butter, sauce, ketchup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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