Clear Tapioca Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Soak the tapioca in a large cup of cold water for 4 hours.
Stir the soaked tapioca into the boiling stock.
Simmer for 10 minutes.
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
- Pearl tapioca
- Its starch swells and softens as it cooks, thickening the stock and giving it a light body.
- Clear stock
- Forms the seasoned liquid base, and the cooked tapioca thickens it.
The step that matters
Stirring the soaked tapioca into the boiling stock. Tapioca pearls can stick together and clump when they hit hot liquid. Stirring them in as the stock boils spreads them out so they cook evenly and thicken the soup smoothly.
“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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