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Sago Milk

A sweetened milk beverage made with sago pearls.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Sago Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the sago in cold water for one hour.

  2. Add the boiling milk to the soaked sago.

  3. Sweeten and flavor to taste.

  4. Simmer slowly for half an hour.

  5. Serve warm.

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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What each ingredient does

Sago
Its starch swells and thickens the milk as it cooks, giving the pudding its body.
Milk
Forms the liquid base and adds richness and creaminess to the finished dish.

The step that matters

Simmer slowly for half an hour. Sago starch must cook long enough in the hot liquid to swell fully and soften. Simmering gently rather than boiling hard keeps the milk from scorching and sticking to the pan.

“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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