Steamed Pudding Recipes - long (OOP) was Re: SC - Spotted D ick/Spotted Dog
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 7 12:02:29 PST 2000
>On 7 Dec 2000, at 12:16, Decker, Terry D. wrote:
>
>> Sago is not tapioca.
>
>According to the Epicurious dictionary:
>
>Sago [SAY-goh]
> A starch extracted from the sago (and
> other tropical) palms that is processed
> into flour, meal and pearl sago, which is
> similar to tapioca. South Pacific cooks
> frequently use sago for baking and for
> thickening soups, puddings and other
> desserts. In the Orient and in India it's
> used as a flour and in the United States
> it's occasionally used as a thickener
>
>Pearly tapioca might still be a reasonable substitute, though, if you
>can't find Sago?
As i said, what we call pearl tapioca is called sago in Indonesia.
Anahita
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