Prune Tapioca

Ingredients

• 1 cupful of tapioca
• 3 cups of water
• 1.5 cups sugar
• juice of 1 lemon
• 3 cups prunes

Method

1. 1

   Soak tapioca in water overnight; in the morning, cook until clear.

2. 2

   Add 1.5 cups sugar, juice of 1 lemon, beaten white of 1 egg, and 3 cups prunes which have been thoroughly cooked and put through a sieve.

3. 3

   Serve with cream.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Superior cook book (1905) by Grace Church (Ishpeming, Mich.), page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

juice of 1 lemon; iiiak(^ as onlinary jelly, ("over bottom of shallow dish with mixture, using one-half. When cool and begiiniing to set place over it. 1 in.ch apart, halves of English walnuts; cover with remaining jellv. When (irm cut in scpiaivs to serve, with 1 walnut in each s(|uare. ■ ' Mns. J. M. Pi:i;kixs. 112 SUPERIOR COOK BOOK Coffee Jelly. One 1)()\ of r]yiii()iitli IJock ^uclatine dissolved in i._. pint of cold walcr; add 11/. |)ts. l)()ilin,u' watoi', 1 pt. oi' su^uar and 1 ])t. sti'aiiU'd (■on'cc. I'our into nionid and set away to l-ai'drn. Serve \\itli wliipixMl cream. If any otlier j^'eJatine is used add juiee of '! lemon- to t1;!\()r. ^^lls. rAitKiiniST. Esi-anaha. California Sunshine Pudding. AVhites of ;3 eggs Ijeaten Avitli 1 rw]) of ])0\vdered STigar. 1 tal)l<'S|)oon of gelatine, dissolve in tlio same sized cup of hoiling water as that of the sugar; wlien eool grad- ually heat in with egg and sugar; heat until eool; st't on ii'e in a mould : serve with \\hi])|ied cream. ]\[iss Wood, San Francisco. Tapioca Cream. Soak '! tahlesjtoons of ta|iiot'a o\cr night in just enough water to c(jvei' it; in the morinng hoil 1 qt. of milk with the soaked tapioca hy placing in a douhli^ l)oiler and add % cu]) of sugar and a litth' salt; heat the yolks of .'1 eggs tlioi'ttugldy and when the milk has hoiled 10 minutes stir in the yolks. IJemove from lire and stir rapidly for 5 nunutes so tluil it will not curdle. Flavoi- with vanilla. ])our into baker or pudding dish; beat th.e A\liites of the eg!j.-s to a stitf froth and ])our o\er the top of the cream; sift sugar over the to[) and hi'own in oven in a dcwel liange a few minutes. Serve cold. Sel.ma Boiuciki;. Prune Tapioca. Soak 1 cupful of tapioca in .'J cu[)s of water

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.