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Baked Apple Tapioca

A baked apple dessert with tapioca and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Baked Apple Tapioca

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tapioca

  1. Soak 1 cup tapioca in cold water for 15 minutes, then drain.

  2. Add fresh water and cook the tapioca until it becomes jelly-like.

  3. Stir in 1 cup sugar.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the tapioca mixture over the apples and bake until the apples are tender.

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.

Explore the science

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 + appletop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and apple barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Tapioca
Starch that thickens and turns jelly-like when cooked in water.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to the tapioca mixture.
Apples
Provide fruit flavor and become tender as they bake.

The step that matters

Cook the tapioca until jelly-like. Tapioca starch thickens and sets as its granules swell and gelatinize in hot water. If it is undercooked, the mixture stays grainy or loose, and the sugar and apples will not form the intended jelly-like layer when baked.

“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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