Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 1995
Testing shows that tapioca is the thickener of choice for fruit pies with delicate texture and bright, fresh fruit flavor.
For many years we have tried using flour and cornstarch to thicken fresh fruit pies, but the results have been uniformly poor. After testing cornstarch, flour, tapioca, and arrowroot, we found that the samples of fruit thickened with the ro...