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Apple Tapioca Pudding

A sweet pudding made from soaked tapioca and apples, sweetened with sugar and lightly salted.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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

Prepare

  1. Wash the tapioca and soak it overnight in 1 pint of water.

Cook

  1. In a pot, combine the soaked tapioca, chopped apples, sugar, salt, and a little water.

  2. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the mixture thickens and flavors meld.

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 pudding as its starch swells and gelatinizes during cooking.
Apples
Provide fruit flavor and soft texture as they cook down into the pudding.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the apples.

The step that matters

Cooking until the mixture thickens. Tapioca needs sustained heat and regular stirring to fully swell and thicken. Stirring keeps the starch from settling and scorching on the bottom of the pot.

“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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