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Tapioca Jelly with Apples

A jelly dessert made with tapioca pearls and apples, cooked slowly until set, served with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,089 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Tapioca Jelly with Apples

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Sprinkle the tapioca around the fruit.

  2. Pour the cold water into the dish.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook gently for 1½ hours until a delicate jelly forms around the apples.

  2. Serve with 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. Apple + creamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,089 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Pearl tapioca
Its starch swells and thickens the cooking liquid as it heats, setting it into a jelly.
Apples
Supply the main fruit flavour and the juices that the tapioca thickens into jelly.
Cold water
Provides the liquid that the tapioca hydrates in and turns into the jelly.
Cream
Adds richness and fat that softens the fruit's tartness in each serving.

The step that matters

Cook gently for 1½ hours. Tapioca starch needs sustained, moderate heat to hydrate evenly and turn clear and set. Vigorous boiling can break down the starch and scorch the bottom of the dish, so the jelly becomes uneven or sticky.

“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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