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Question

When using Tapioca as a thickener for a baked fruit pie do you add the Tapioca uncooked ? How exactly does it work as a thickener ? Also if you are making an uncooked Strawberry Pie then what can you use as a thickener ? Thanks for all answers...

Answer 1

Yes, add it uncooked. The heat during baking cooks and activates it. It works as a thickener the same way cornstarch and flour works- as a binding agent. If you are making a strawberry pie that is uncooked, here's a good suggestion, that my mother in law makes, and that is wonderful: fresh fruit and the same flavor jello, add it to a cooked pie crust and let it set in the fridge. They are low fat, easy, and delicious.

Answer 2

Tapioca is a starch, like cornstarch. When you get it wet and then heat it, each grain soaks up water and swells up, and that's how it works as a thickener. You do have to heat it up, though.

I've never made an uncooked strawberry pie, but I think what you do is make the sauce separately, using strawberry juice, thickener, and sugar. Then you toss the strawberries in it and put them in the pre-cooked shell. I have seen prepared strawberry-pie stuff in supermarkets, in a jar. You just mix the strawberries in that and put them in the shell.

Answer 3

You can get tapioca in several different forms...small pearl, large pearl, powdered. They all have to be cooked. Corn starch has to be cooked, too.

For pies that have uncooked fruit, like strawberry, you put the tapioca in the sauce with the sugar, water, etc., then cook that, let it cool, then mix in the berries and pour it into the crust to set.

By the way, your questions certainly were not dumb! None of us was born knowing how to cook and the different methods of preparing food. I've been cooking for over 40 years, and I still learn new things about it.

Answer 4

I never use tapioca for anything, I use cornstarch. You just follow the basic directions on the package and adjust to the consistency you need.

Answer 5

I don't like the tapioca "pearls" in my foods. I would recommend corn starch or other type of flour

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Answer 7

don't know abt the tapioca but for strawberry u can can use corn startch

Answer 8

There is a filler you can buy for the strawberry pie.

Answer 9

flour is one main ingredient that thickens food.