Indian Tapioca Pudding

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup pearl tapioca
  • 1 cup molasses
  • 6 cups scalded milk
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup Indian meal
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 2 cups cold milk

Directions

Soak tapioca in cold water over night. Cook Indian, meal and scalded milk in double boiler twenty minutes; add tapioca, molasses, butter, salt. Pour into buttered baking dish; cook two hours in slow oven.

At the end of the first hour, add the cold milk. Serve hot with butter or cream.