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Baked Tapioca Pudding

A baked dessert made from soaked tapioca, water, salt, boiling water, brown sugar, and served with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Baked Tapioca Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Soak the tapioca in water overnight.

Bake and serve

  1. In the morning, add salt, boiling water, and brown sugar to the soaked tapioca.

  2. Bake in a 300°F (150°C) oven for about 3 hours.

  3. Serve with whipped cream.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Pearl tapioca
Its starch thickens as it hydrates and cooks, giving the pudding its body and soft, gel-like texture.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and a molasses-like depth of flavor, and keeps the pudding moist.

The step that matters

Baking for about 3 hours. The tapioca starch must fully swell and cook through, or the pudding stays grainy or firm. The long, gentle bake lets the starch gelatinize evenly, and the pudding sets further as it cools.

“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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