Tapioca Cream

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoonfuls tapioca
• 1 pint milk
• 1 tablespoonful castor sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 2 yolks
• 2 whites, stiffly whipped
• Vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Wash the tapioca, then put it into a pan with the milk and let it soak for an hour.

2. 2

   Put over the fire and boil, stirring all the time, till the grains are quite transparent and the mixture thick.

3. 3

   Remove from the fire; add sugar, salt, and the yolks.

4. 4

   When the yolks are cooked, mix in lightly the whipped whites and vanilla.

5. 5

   Serve cold, but unmoulded.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Liverpool School of Cookery recipe book (1900) by E. E. Mann, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 yolks and pour over the cakes. Bake in a moderate oven for 35 or 40 minutes. Cover with 2 whites in froth and return to the oven to set and slightly colour. Yiennoise 5 oz. bread cut in £ inch t dice. 1 glass sherry. \ pint milk. 8 oz. castor sugar. 5 oz. sultanas. Pudding. Grated rind of 1 lemon. 2 oz. mixed peel. 1 oz. loaf sugar. 2 tahlespoonfuls water. A pint milk. 3 eggs. Method : Soak the dice in the sherry and \ pint milk, keeping them covered. Clean and pick the sultanas, cut the candied peel finely, and mix with the sugar and grated lemon rind. Put the sugar and water into a small iron saucepan, allow it to turn a very dark brown, then take from the fire and let it cool. When cooled, add \ pint milk. Let the caramel dissolve in the milk, then add the beaten eggs, cook slightly, and strain the brown custard over the 54 PRACTICAL COOKERY. bread previously mixed with sultanas, sugar, etc. Have ready a well-buttered and sugared mould, pour in the pudding, cover with a greased paper and steam 2 hours. Serve with vanilla sauce. Rich Christmas Pudding. 6 oz. - 1 dessertspoonful salt, i lb. moist sugar. 1 lb. bread. 1 lb. currants. 1 lb. Yalentia raisins. 1 lb. sultanas. 4 lb. mixed candied peel. j lb. beef suet. 2 oz. almonds. 1 nutmeg, grated. 1 teaspoonful grated ginger. 8 eggs. | pint brandy. About 1 pint of milk. Method : Stone the raisins and chop roughly. Put the bread through a wire sieve, or grate it through a grating machine. Clean the currants and sultanas, chop the suet very finely. Blanch the almonds, chop them, also chop the candied peel. Mix all the dry ingredients well, then add the beaten eggs, brandy, and enough milk to make a rather soft pudding mixture. Put into a buttered pudding mould and steam 6 hours. If made in two puddings, steam 4 hours. Tapioca 2 tablespoonfuls tapioca. 1 pint milk. 1 tablespoonful castor sugar. Pinch of salt. Cream. 2 yolks. 2 whites, stiffly whipped

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