SC - Re: Steamed Pudding Recipes - long (OOP)

[Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir]

Olwen wrote:
>
>I took your earlier advice and called about a dozen or so Health Food
stores
>in the area.  None of them have sago.  Is there any substitute or should I
>just scratch trying this recipe out.


This will probably not help you at all but the pearl "sago" I can buy here
(at most grocery stores) is actually made of 100% potato starch. It used to
be real sago but in Scandinavia, sago has been made from potato starch for
the last century or so. I sometimes cook sago puddings and desserts from
18th and 19th century cookbooks and this fake sago seems to work fine.
Tapioca probably would work just as well.

>It's the one called Sago Plum Pudding but has no plums listed in the
ingredients, just raisins.

Puddings of this type originally contained dried plums (well, most of them
did, at least). Those were later replaced by imported raisins but the name
lingered on.

Nanna