0 small white grains that are obtained from part of the trunk of a particular tree, used in cooking: --
sago pudding
These are mainly foods such as tea, coffee, cocoa, potatoes; butter and cooking fat; dried fruits; and a range of farinaceous products such as flour, rice, sago and tapioca.
Ordinary articles of food which are entirely imported are rice, tapioca, sago, sugar, bananas, oranges, cocoa, coffee, and tea.
Take corn and grain—corn and flour, corn fodder and oil cake, malt, rice, sago, tapioca, macaroni, beans, peas, and lentils.
Then there are sago, tapioca, sago flour, and bananas which are enormously important.
There are no separate figures of sago flour imports for prewar years in the trade returns.
It is hoped that imports of sago will be resumed in the course of the next few weeks.
Whether rice pudding, tapioca, ground rice or sago, it is always there—not very exciting, not very often chosen, but always there.
There are alternatives to rice—sago, tapioca and farina.
