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

[Elaine Koogler]

Yes, but is it the same thing we get here and call Tapioca?  I know that when we
lived in Papua New Guinea, there was a fruit that they called "paw paw", but was
what we call papaya...and at home in SW Virginia, we also had paw paws, but they
were a totally different fruit!

Kiri

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> Bear wrote:
> >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.
>
> Anahita wrote:
> >  > 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.
>
> Ma'af, Tuan Bear, tatapi dalam bahasa Indonesia namanya tapioca itu
> sagu atau sago. Saya hidup disana kira-kira dua tahun dan waktu saya
> di Indonesia saya beri sago itu disana sering. Sago itu tapioca di
> Indonesia.
>
> OK, translation:
>
> Excuse me, (honorific) Bear, but in the Indonesian language the word
> for tapioca is sagu or sago. I lived there approximately two years
> and while i lived in Indonesia i bought sago there numerous times.
> "Sago" is tapioca in Indonesia.
>
> Anahita
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