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Fruit Tapioca

Fruit tapioca is a sweet dessert made by cooking tapioca with water, salt, sugar, berries, or jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Johnson, Vt. Congregational church. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Fruit Tapioca

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine 1/2 cup tapioca with 1.5 pints boiling water.

  2. Cook for 1 hour or until clear.

  3. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 teacup berries, or 2 cups jelly.

By Johnson, Vt. Congregational church. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Tapioca
Thickens the pudding as its starch swells in hot water and sets it to a soft, clear gel.
Berries
Add fruit flavor and moisture, and their juices blend into the thickened tapioca.

The step that matters

Cook the tapioca until clear. Tapioca starch only swells and softens fully with sustained heat. If it is pulled off the heat too early, the pudding stays cloudy and grainy instead of smooth and translucent.

“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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