Old Fashioned Tapioca Pudding
Crystal Miller
1/3 cup tapioca pearls (not the instant kind)
¾ cup water
2 ¼ cups milk
¼ t. salt
2 eggs, seperated
½ cup cane juice crystals
½ t vanilla
In a 1 ½ quart sauce pan soak the tapioca pearls in the water for at least 3
hours, longer is fine. After soaking time is up add the milk, salt and egg yolks
stir well and heat on medium heat until boiling. Turn heat down to very low and
let it cook for another 30 minutes. Stir this occasionally. In a smaller bowl
mix egg whites and cane juice crystals. When the milk mixture has finished its
cooking time, remove from heat. Add some of the hot milk mixture to the egg
whites and cane juice crystals. stir quickly and well so the egg whites don’t
cook. Add a little more and stir and then add all of the egg white mixture into
the milk in the saucepan. Return to low heat and cook for another 3 minutes,
stirring constantly. Remove from heat and cool for 15 minutes. Add vanilla.
Serve warm or cold.
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