Base for tripe stew or soup

1 kg (about 2 pounds) of  beef honeycomb tripe
1 1/2 pound beef with bone ( can  be substituted with 1 pound of beef bones)
2 sticks of celery
1 large onion
2 carrots
laurel leaf
black pepper peppercorns

2 cooking pans needed
1 for the tripe
1 for the beef with vegetables


Put beef with celery, peeled onion, carrot in cold water.
Cook it as a regular beef soup, with laurel leafs and peppercorns

Put cleaned tripe into a pan, cover with water and boil until undesired odor is gone..

Then trow away the water, take the tripe and put it together with the beef.

Cook until done. It is about 5 hours, sometimes even more. Remove the beef with the bone when its done. The timing is up to you. 1.5 or 2 hrs.  

After tripe is done, remove it from the broth, Remove the cooked vegetables, Strain the broth.

Tripe, beef pieces and the broth are the base for your next dish.

In couple of days, I will write about basic Polish Flijaki soup (stew)