Special Tapioca Pudding

Ingredients

1/2 cup Large Pearl Tapioca
2 1/2 cups Milk
1/4 tsp. Salt
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs separated
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Method

Soak tapioca in 2 cups of room temperature water overnight.

Next day, drain the tapioca. In a double boiler, heat milk until just no longer cold. Add salt and tapioca. Continue heating until small bubble appear at the sides of the pan. Cover, turn heat to very low and cook for 1 hour. Make sure that the milk mixture does not simmer or boil.

Separate eggs. Beat egg yolks and sugar together until light yellow in colour. Add a little of the hot mixture and blend thouroughly. Then add the egg yolk mixture to the hot milk mixture, stirring constantly.

Place the double boiler over medium heat and cook until tapioca mixture is very thick (about 15 minutes). Beat egg whites until stiff. Slowly fold the hot tapioca mixture into the egg whites. Stir in vanilla. Serve warm or cold.