Name: Tapioca Fruit Pudding
Ingredients: ½ cup tapioca; 1 pint water; ¼ teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoons white sugar

Tapioca Fruit Pudding

Ingredients

½ cup tapioca
1 pint water
¼ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons white sugar

Directions

Wash the tapioca and soak it in 1 pint of water overnight or until it swells.
Add boiling water and salt, then simmer slowly until clear and thick, like starch.
Stir in the sugar.
In a pudding dish, layer the tapioca.

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.