Tapioca Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Gently drop 2 oz. of tapioca into 1 quart of boiling soup while stirring to prevent lumps.
Place the saucepan on the corner of the stove and let it simmer for 20 minutes, keeping the lid on to prevent scum.
Skim the surface and serve.
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 soup as its starch swells during simmering.
- Soup
- Serves as the liquid base that the tapioca thickens.
The step that matters
Drop the tapioca in gradually while stirring. Tapioca added in a clump hydrates unevenly on the outside, forming lumps. Sprinkling it slowly into boiling liquid while stirring separates the granules so they swell evenly and the soup thickens smoothly.
“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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