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Grape Tapioca

A sweet dessert made from tapioca pearls cooked with grape juice and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,490 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Grape Tapioca

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Bring water to a boil in a saucepan.

  2. Add tapioca and salt, and boil until clear.

  3. Stir in grape juice and sugar, then boil for 2 more minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve cold with whipped 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.

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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. Grape + sugartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

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

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Minute tapioca
Thickens the liquid as it cooks, giving the pudding its body and gel-like texture.
Grape juice
Adds fruit flavor and color, and its sugars add sweetness and some liquid.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and balances the tartness of the grape juice.

The step that matters

Boil until clear after adding the tapioca. Tapioca starch must be fully boiled to swell and thicken the liquid. Undercooked tapioca stays cloudy, grainy, and loose, so the pudding will not set properly as it cools.

“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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