¹⁄₃ cup pearl tapioca
³⁄₄ cup water
3 cups milk
¹⁄₂ teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 tablespoon butter
¹⁄₂ cup sugar
¹⁄₂ teaspoon vanilla
Soak the tapioca in the water for one hour. Add the milk, sugar, butter,
and salt. Set the pan in a cooker-pail of boiling water. When the milk
is scalding remove the pan and let the pudding come to a boil. Replace
it in the boiling water and put it into the cooker for one and one-half
hours. Take it from the cooker, add the beaten eggs, replace it in the
pail of hot water and stir it over the fire till it registers 165
degrees Fahrenheit, using a dairy or chemist’s thermometer. Put it
again into the cooker for one hour. When cold, add the vanilla.
Rice may be used instead of tapioca.
Serves six or eight persons.