Plain Tapioca Pudding

Ingredients

• a tea-cupful of small tapioca
• a pint of cold water
• a pint of milk
• half an inch of stick cinnamon
• a piece of butter about the size of a threepenny-piece

Method

1. 1

   Soak the tapioca in cold water overnight.

2. 2

   Combine with the soaking water and milk in a greased pie-dish.

3. 3

   Add cinnamon and butter.

4. 4

   Bake in a gentle oven until transparent and covered with a brown skin, about three hours.

5. 5

   Serve with sugar or jam.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 172. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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For the Day.— -A tin of Preserved Oysters ; three or four pounds of Chops from the Loin for Haricot Mutton; Young Carrots; New Potatoes; the middle cut of the Silverside of Beef, weighing about eight pounds. For To-morrow.— Anchovies, if not in the house ; Radishes; Watercress. Breakfast. — Dried Haddock (January 27th); Beef, boiled (June 5th); Toasted Teacakes (February 14th); Corn Flour Milk (June 19 th). Luncheon.— Fish Cakes (January 13tli) ; Normandy Pippins (August 16 th). 2i a A YEAR'S COOKER Y. Dinner. — Oyster Soup (October 1st); Haricot Mutton (April 13 th); Young Carrots (July 6th); Haricot Beans (June 20th): New Potatoes (April 12th); Pancakes (February 24th). Cheese, To serve. — Cheese may either be brought upon the table whole or cut ; or, better still, it may be cut before dinner into small square pieces and handed round by the waiter. 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