In all probability you will try your hand at jelly-making; and when
you have exhausted your own stock of recipes try making a tapioca
jelly. To prepare it, soak one cup of tapioca in three cups of water
over night. In the morning put it into a double boiler with a cup of
hot water, and let it simmer until perfectly clear, stirring often.
Sweeten to taste and flavor with the juice of half a lemon and two
tablespoonfuls of wine. Pour into cups, and set away to get perfectly
cold. When serving, sprinkle with powdered sugar and heap a little
whipped cream on it.
Or it may be that a blanc-mange made with tapioca will seem to you
worth the trying. If so, soak a cupful of tapioca in two cups of water
over night. In the morning put it into the double boiler, and stir
into it two cups of boiling milk, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, and a
pinch of salt. Cook it slowly for fifteen minutes, stirring several
times. Take it from the fire, and flavor with wine or vanilla. Let it
harden in small moulds, and serve with powdered sugar and whipped
cream.