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Fruit Tapioca Pudding

A sweet pudding made from soaked tapioca, raspberry jam, salt, butter, and served with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Fruit Tapioca Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tapioca

  1. Soak the tapioca in water overnight.

  2. In the morning, cook the soaked tapioca in a double boiler until clear.

Finish and set

  1. Add the raspberry jam, salt, and butter; stir well.

  2. Pour the mixture into a mold and set aside to cool and harden.

  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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Tapioca
Thickens the mixture as it cooks and sets it into a firm, chewy texture when cooled.
Raspberry jam
Adds sweetness, fruit flavor, and color to the pudding.

The step that matters

Cooking the soaked tapioca until clear. Tapioca must be cooked long enough for its starch granules to swell and turn translucent; undercooked tapioca stays opaque and gritty. Gentle double-boiler heat helps prevent scorching and lumps while the starch thickens.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, cream):

  1. Strawberryfits about as well
  2. Vanillafits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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