Many tell me they never heard the name before, my wife included. Chicago Co., perhaps not marketed in Indiana. Wonderful pudding desserts, especially chocolate!
My mother made it for me often, pudding like, of course plenty of sugar, and she thought it was loaded with nutrients. I thought that all my life, but never had it for years, till the other day, I spotted one box left on Kroger's shelf and convinced my wife to buy it. Yesterday she cooked up a batch. 4 Tablespoons of it make more than one can eat at a sitting. The whole box serves something like 84 servings! I researched it. Too late. Pure carbohydrate, no vitamins or minerals, of course, no protein. She made it with NO SUGAR , only Erythritol, and it tastes pretty good! It's made out of CASSAVA ROOT. The amount grown worldwide is truly amazing: millions of TONS annually! The root is made into a variety of different meals, depending on the local culture. India seems to raise the most. Many African countries subsist on the stuff! If yer not a "Ketoan", it makes a delicious snack. Anyone else eat this stuff, or know perhaps more about it? Frank
We eat it sometimes, as my wife cannot tolerate grains well, but starches don't bother her. Our son and his keto family use chia in the same manner as tapioca is used.
I love it and your statement of it being pure carbohydrate, no vitamins or minerals pretty much explains why. I like it lumpy, stir the skin on the top in or just eat the skin. The last batches I made were the fish eye sized pearls. I got great deals on them on amazon. I guess no one else likes those. But then I sort of cut back on 'worthless' foods. They give me leg cramps as the good minerals in my body seem to leave with the sugar and carbs now.
@Mary Stetler My wife clued me in on a good trick: place the whole batch of tapioca puddin' in a bowl and cover the stuff with a covering of plastic wrap. Refrigerate. When the wrap is removed, no "skin" is there! Frank
It's like rice pudding...I like it but rarely make it. I don't know why it never seems to be on my radar screen. I do keep some around to sometimes use as a thickener in other dishes.
I haven't had any Tapopca pudding since my kid were babies. I liked it.Didn't know the history of it.Thanks for the info.
Ain't had me no tapioca in ages. Maybe the last time was when Furr's Cafeteria was operating in Lubbock, Texas. They also had a chain of grocery stores and one of them, the first and largest also stocked many other items besides groceries. That's where I bought my one to one macro lens. and a tripod. That's been a fur pece piece back, I don't remember exactly when but I must have been in my late thirties and now I'm nearly as old as a turtle. I do know I liked the stuff because I think I traded out days when I got tapioca one time and peach cobbler the next and that was hard to beat. But you know that.