Name: Colombines of Ham
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons tapioca; cold water

Colombines of Ham

Ingredients

2 tablespoons tapioca
cold water

Directions

Soak the tapioca in cold water for a short time.
Strain off the water.
If the tapioca is uneven in size, lightly pound the large lumps in a mortar until they are uniform, about the size of a small pea.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.