[rec.food.recipes] OVO-LACTO: Pearl Tapioca Pudding

aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) (02/10/91)

[adapted from a recipe in the _Miami Herald_]

Pearl Tapioca Pudding

1 cup pearl tapioca
4 cups milk
5 eggs
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
1 cup sugar

Soak the tapioca in 1 cup of milk overnight in the refrigerator. 

The next day, pour the soaked tapioca into the top of a double boiler
set over boiling water. Add the other 3 cups of milk, and cover.  Cook
for three hours.

Remove from heat and let cool. Beat in egg yolks, lemon rind and juice,
and sugar. In a spearate bowl, beat egg whites until stiff.

Pour half the tapioca mix into a 1-quart baking dish, followed by half
the egg whites, followed by rest of the tapioca mix, topped by the rest
of the egg whites. Bake 15 minutes at 325 degrees F until the meringue
is lightly browned.

Serves 8.

aem