Tapioca Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoonful of pearl tapioca
• 1 cupful of milk
• 1 tablespoonful of sugar
• % teaspoonful of salt
• 1 egg yolk well beaten
• a few drops of vanilla
• a few tablespoonfuls of chopped dates, figs, prunes or drained canned fruit

Method

1. 1

   Wash and soak tapioca overnight.

2. 2

   Drain, place in a double boiler with milk, sugar, and salt.

3. 3

   Cook until thickened, remove from fire, add vanilla and beaten egg yolk.

4. 4

   Turn into a dish, cover with beaten egg white mixed with sugar, and brown in the oven.

5. 5

   Optionally add fruit before serving.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 140. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tapioca Pudding Wash and soak 1 teaspoonful of pearl tapioca overnight. Drain, place in a double boiler, add 1 cupful of milk, 1 table- spoonful of sugar and % teaspoonful of salt. Cook until the mixture thickens, remove from the fire, add a few drops of vanilla and 1 egg yolk well beaten. .Turn into a serving dish and cover with the stiffly beaten eg^^^^ftTin which 1 tablespoon- ful of sugar has been folded. Set in the oven and slowly brown the egg white. A few tablespoonfuls of chopped dates, figs, prunes or drained canned fruit may be added to the pudding just before it is removed from the stove if one wishes. Apple Delight Eun 1 cupful of apple sauce through a fine sieve and fold in % cupful of stiffly whipped cream. If this is not fluffy enough, fold in the white of an egg beaten until dry. Flavor with a few drops of vanilla. The apple sauce should be sweetened or more sugar will need to be added. Frozen Pudding Place 1 cupful of milk in a double boiler and add 1 table- spoonful of sugar and 1 teaspoonful of cornstarch mixed together with a small portion of the milk. Stir until the mixture begins to thicken. Eemove from the fire and add % teaspoonful of vanilla, % teaspoonful of salt and 1 beaten egg. Stir until mixed, strain, cool and freeze. A fancy cream may be made by adding fruit or berries rubbed through a sieve. Prune Fluff Eub 1 cupful of cooked prunes through a sieve, add 1 table- spoonful of lemon juice and fold in 1 stiffly beaten egg white. COOKING FOE THE SICK 283 Add 1 tablespoonful of sugar

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