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Apple-tapioca Pudding

A pudding made from soaked tapioca, apples, and sugar baked slowly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and sugar 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 ↓

Apple-tapioca Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Soak the tapioca in 6 cups of water for 2 hours.

  2. Add the chopped apples and sugar to the soaked tapioca.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a slow oven at 300°F (150°C) for 4 hours.

  2. Serve warm or cold with 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.

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. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

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

Apple and sugar 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
Thickens the liquid into a soft, pudding-like texture as it cooks.
Apples
Add fruit flavour and moisture that softens during the long bake.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and balances the tartness of the apples.

The step that matters

Soak the tapioca for 2 hours. Soaking hydrates the tapioca starch granules before baking, so they cook evenly and the pudding sets smoothly rather than staying grainy or lumpy.

“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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