The pudding and pastry book

by Elizabeth Douglas

Apple Tapioca Pudding

1 teacup tapioca
1¹⁄₂ pints warm water
6 apples
1 lemon
1 tea-spoon butter
1 cup milk
1 cup powdered sugar

Soak the tapioca in the water. Add to it the butter, melted, a little salt, half the sugar and the milk. Peel and core six sour apples, filling them with the rest of the sugar with which the juice of half a lemon and the grated peel of a whole lemon have been mixed. Put the apples into a deep pudding-dish. Pour the tapioca and milk round them. Bake an hour.

This pudding may be made with plums, gooseberries or currants; they should be well sweetened.