A Friend in the Kitchen; Or, What to Cook and How to Cook It. / Sixteenth Edition

by Anna L. Colcord

TAPIOCA CUP CUSTARD

Soak one tablespoonful of tapioca in a small cup of milk for two hours; then stir in the beaten yolk of a fresh egg, a teaspoonful of sugar, and a very little salt; turn into a cup, and bake in the oven for twelve or fifteen minutes.

Will fortune never come with both hands full,

And write her fair words still in foulest letters?

She either gives a stomach, and no food,—

Such are the poor, in health, or else a feast,

And takes away the stomach,—such are the rich,

That have abundance, and enjoy it not.

—Shakespeare.

[Food For Infants]