Caramel Tapioca

Ingredients

• Milk, 2 1/2 cups
• Eggs, 2
• Minute tapioca, 2 tablespoons
• Salt, 1/2 teaspoon
• Sugar, 1 1/4 cups
• Vanilla, 1 teaspoon

Method

1. 1

   Put milk in double boiler, heat, stir in tapioca until thick.

2. 2

   Melt, dry, 0.67 cup of sugar until light brown, pour into milk carefully; beat yolks of eggs with remainder of sugar; pour milk on eggs and return to double boiler; cook 1 minute; remove from fire, add salt and vanilla.

3. 3

   Make a meringue of whites of eggs and 1 tablespoon sugar, and put on custard.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mary Jane's cook book (1916) by Mary Jane, Sophie D. Coe, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CARAMEL TAPIOCA. Milk, 21/2 cups. Eggs, 2. Minute tapioca, 2 tablespoons. Salt, i/2 teaspoon. Sugar, 11,4 cups. Vanilla, 1 teaspoon. Put milk in double boiler, heat, stir in tapioca until thick. Melt, dry, 2-3 cup of sugar until light brown, pour into milk care- fully; beat yolks of eggs with remainder of sugar; pour milk on eggs and return to double boiler; cook 1 minute; remove from fire, add salt and vanilla. Make a meringue of whites of eggs and 1 tablespoon sugar, and put on custard. DESSERTS. 131 INDIAN TAPIOCA PUDDING. Milk, 1 quart. Indian meal, 2 tablespoons. Sugar, y2 cup. Salt, 1 teaspoon. Molasses, 1/2 cup. Ginger, 1 teaspoon. Minute tapioca, 3 tablespoons. Scald the milk in a double boiler and stir into it the tapioca and meal mixed. Cook 10 minutes or until thickened. Remove from fire, add sugar, molasses, salt and ginger. Bake 1 hour and serve with whipped cream. COFFEE TAPIOCA. Cold coffee, 2 cups. Minute tapioca, 2 tablespoons. Sugar, 1/2 cup. Cornstarch, 1 tablespoon. Vanilla. Soak tapioca in cold water for a few minutes then add to coffee and sugar. Put over fire and when it boils stir in corn- starch mixed with a little cold coffee. Add vanilla and turn int<> mold. Chill and serve with whipped cream. MAPLE TAPIOCA CREAM. Tapioca, 1/2 cup. Eggs, 2. Milk, 1 pint. Maple sugar or syrup, 1 cup. Sugar, 1 cup. Salt, a pinch. Soak tapioca in 1 cup of water over night. Tn the morning pour off water, add milk, sugar, egg yolks, well beaten, and salt. Heat and add maple sugar and let all rook in double boiler for 1 hour. Beat the egg whites stiff and fold in when mixture is cool. Serve with whipped cream. TAPIOCA CREAM. Milk, 1 quart. Vanilla or lemon extract, 1 Eggs, 2. teaspoon. Salt, 1/2 teaspoon

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