Name: Tapioca Soup
Ingredients: 1 ounce tapioca; ½ cup water; 2½ pints well-seasoned broth

Tapioca Soup

Ingredients

1 ounce tapioca
½ cup water
2½ pints well-seasoned broth

Directions

Soak the tapioca

Soak the tapioca in ½ cup of water for 2 hours.

Simmer the soup

Add the soaked tapioca to 2½ pints of well-seasoned broth.
Cover closely and let it simmer for 20 minutes.

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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What each ingredient does

Tapioca: Thickens the broth as its starch swells and gelatinizes during simmering.
Broth: Forms the liquid base and carries the soup's main seasoning and flavor.

“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.