This is a beautifully elegant dessert on its own, perhaps topped with whipped cream. But it also makes a unique fruit salad dressing. The homemade caramel gives it a great flavor, and the barely-there consistency of the tapioca balls will delight any boba fans among your guests.
Dromedary cookbooks seem to be uniformly great, and this is one of the best recipes of their One Hundred Delights. If you’re comfortable heating sugar on the stove, make it.
The way to a man’s heart may be through his stomach, but don’t forget that the quickest way to his stomach is pie. — Imperial Sugar Company (Romantic Recipes of the Old South and the Great Southwest)