 Tripes à la mode de Caen

Tripes à la mode de Caen is a traditional dish of the cuisine of Normandy, France.In its original form this dish consisted of all four chambers of a beef cattle's stomach, part of the large intestine (this was outlawed in France in 1996), plus the hooves and bones, cut up and placed on a bed of carrots, onions, leeks, garlic, cloves, peppercorns, a "bouquet garni", a bottle of cider and a glass of calvados in a "tripière" (a special earthenware pot for cooking tripe).