Tapioca Custard Pudding

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/4 cup pearl tapioca (not the quick-cooking kind)
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 soak tapioca in enough cold water to cover until water is absorbed.
• 2 add milk and cook in a double boiler until tapioca is transparent.
• 3 to the beaten yolks, sugar, and salt, add a little of the hot mixture.
• 4 return all to the double boiler and cook 3 minutes.
• 5 cool slightly; fold in the well-beaten egg whites.
• 6 flavour and serve.
• 7 note at end of recipe: 3 tbsp of minute tapioca may be substituted; soaking may then be omitted.