Skip to main content
Dessert

Tapioca and Fruit Puddings

A sweet pudding made by cooking tapioca with fruit and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Peach and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,308 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Tapioca and Fruit Puddings

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tapioca

  1. Pour boiling water over ½ cup of tapioca.

  2. Let it stand on the back of the stove until transparent.

Assemble and bake

  1. Place sweetened fruit in a baking dish.

  2. Pour the tapioca over the fruit.

  3. Bake until the fruit is cooked.

Finish and serve

  1. Stir canned fruit into the tapioca and boil together.

  2. Mold and serve cold.

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. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 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

Tapioca
Thickens and sets the pudding as its starch swells and turns clear when cooked.
Fresh fruit
Provides the main flavor and moisture that the tapioca sets around.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the tart or plain fruit.

The step that matters

Let the tapioca stand until transparent. Tapioca starch must fully hydrate and swell in hot water before it is mixed in. If it is underhydrated, the pudding can stay chalky or grainy and will not set evenly.

“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.

You might also like

Peach Ice CreamPeach Ice Cream64 recipesPeach FrittersPeach Fritters55 recipesPeach MeringuePeach Meringue40 recipesPeach IcePeach Ice16 recipes