OLD-FASHIONED TAPIOCA PUDDING
Author: Tag Sale Tastes
Ingredients
  • ½ cup small pearl tapioca
  • 2-1/2 cups milk (I used whole milk)
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 2 eggs, separated
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
  1. In a bowl, soak tapioca in 2 cups of water overnight. Drain water using a wire strainer.
  2. Place approximately 2 inches of water in the bottom of a double boiler (or saucepan, if you do not have a double boiler). Bring to a boil over medium high heat. Add milk to top part of double boiler (or a metal bowl, if you do not have double boiler), and set over pan of boiling water. Heat the milk briefly, just until no longer cold. Add salt and tapioca, and continue hearing until small bubbles appear at sides of pan. Cover, reduce heat to very low, and cook for 1 hour, making sure that milk mixture does not simmer or boil.
  3. Separate eggs, placing yolks in a medium bowl, and setting the whites aside. Add sugar to yolks, and using an electric beater, beat until light yellow in color. Add about ¼ cup of the hot milk mixture to the egg yolks and blend thoroughly. Add the egg yolk mixture to the hot tapioca mixture, stirring constantly. Place the double boiler over medium heat and cook until tapioca is very thick, stirring frequently, about 15 minutes.
  4. Place the egg whites in a medium bowl, and using an electric beater, beat until stiff. Slowly fold the egg whites into the hot tapioca, until thoroughly combined. Stir in vanilla.
  5. Serve warm or chilled. Garnish with fruit or whipped topping, if desired.
Recipe by Tag Sale Tastes at https://www.tagsaletastes.com/2013/05/20/old-fashioned-tapioca-pudding/