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Peach Tapioca

A sweet dessert made from canned peaches, tapioca, sugar, and water, served with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Peach Tapioca

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches and tapioca

  1. Press the pulp from the canned peaches through a sieve, saving the juice.

  2. Stir together the Minute Tapioca and sugar, then boil in water for 15 minutes.

Finish and serve

  1. Add the peach pulp and juice, stir thoroughly, and mold the mixture.

  2. Serve 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.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

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

  3. Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together721 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Minute tapioca
Its starch swells and thickens the liquid as it boils, giving the pudding its body.
Canned peaches
Provide the main fruit flavor and moisture, with the juice adding liquid to the pudding.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the peaches.

The step that matters

Boiling the tapioca for 15 minutes. Tapioca starch must boil long enough to fully swell and turn clear. If it is undercooked, the pudding stays grainy or chalky and will not set properly.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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