Tapioca Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Put the tapioca into cold stock.
Bring it gradually to a boil.
Simmer gently until tender.
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
- Swells as it cooks, thickening the stock and giving the soup its body.
- Stock
- Forms the liquid base that the tapioca hydrates and thickens in.
The step that matters
Bring it gradually to a boil. Starting tapioca in cold stock and heating slowly lets the granules hydrate evenly. Heating too fast can cause lumps and uneven thickening as the starch swells unevenly on the outside first.
“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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