Sago Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the sago well.
Boil the sago with the water until it reduces to a transparent jelly.
Flavor to taste if desired.
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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What each ingredient does
- Sago
- Starch that gelatinises when boiled, thickening the water into a jelly.
- Water
- Medium that the sago starch swells in and cooks into a jelly.
The step that matters
Boiling until transparent. Sago must cook long enough for its starch granules to fully swell and gelatinise; stopping early leaves a cloudy, grainy jelly instead of a clear one.
“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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