Steamed Pudding Recipes - long (OOP) was Re: SC - Spotted D ick/Spotted Dog

[Decker, Terry D.]

Sago is not tapioca.  Sago is the starch from the trunk of a sago palm
(usually, Cycas circinalis or Cycas revoluta) and is Asiatic origin.

Tapioca is made from the starch of the cassava root (Manihot esculenta) and
is of Brazilian origin.

Bear

> It is tapioca. Tapioca is made of sago. Tapioca comes in a number of 
> sizes, from the tiny kind typical in the US, to large ones the size 
> of pearls used in Southeast Asia. It may well be the latter the 
> recipe calls for, since it says to soak them overnight, which you 
> don't need to do with the tiny US kind.
> 
> Anahita