Tapioca or Tapi-api-oca pudding

[chaotic-binky.livejournal.com]

I used to make this for my kids when they were small, and they make it now they have moved out. Milk puddings flavoured with crushed cardomom seeds are divine!


1 pint of milk

2 ounces of seed pearl tapioca

2 ounces sugar

5 crushed cardomom pods - throw the outer skin away and use the seeds.

a few strands of mace

1-2 ounces of butter.


Put mace strands in milk and gently heat until just under boiling - take off heat and let steep for about half an hour so that milk smells of mace. Remove mace strands from milk and throw them away.

Mix sugar, milk, tapioca, crushed cardomom seeds and pour into a buttered dish,

Top with butter.

Put in over Gas mark 3, 325 degrees fahrenheit or 160 degrees Celsius, for about 2 hours.

Take out of oven every so often and stir so that tapioca does not stick to bottom, and it thickens with the skin stirred in.

Serve when creamy, although I like mine quite firm and eat it cold as well. The thickness depends on how long it is cooked.

Comments

[l-greytree.livejournal.com]

You can NOT be old enough to have kids that have moved out!!! And I know it is illegal to kick your kids out when they are under ten!!! (Aren't the assumptions we make about our online friends funny?!) I am going to try this. We all love tapioca!

[chaotic-binky.livejournal.com]

Hehehe! My kids are 23 and 24.

Try it - make double quantities if you are all having some as the above only serves 2 people - or me if I feel like a piggy that day!

Hugs Binky xxxxx

[erviniae.livejournal.com]

What is mace?

[l-greytree.livejournal.com]

Mace surrounds the Nutmeg nut. It has a milder flavor. here's a link from one of our local (Madison WI) spice merchants. Mace Info (http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/p-penzeysnutmeg_mace.html)

[erviniae.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info--I learn something new every day!

[chaotic-binky.livejournal.com]

it is a spice - it covers the outer husk of a nutmeg. Mace is more subtle than nutmeg and is reminiscent of nutmeg in flavour and smell but has a taste of its own. Nutmeg can be substituted in any mace dish but will not taste exactly the same.

Hope this helps

Hugs Binky xxxxx

[erviniae.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon. Sounds divine!

[ennorwen.livejournal.com]

You are soreading my mind! My whole fam. is gone for the next four days and one of the things I'm planning on making for myself is tapioca pudding! I've not used these spices before, but I know I love them...now, just have to find. Hum, yum, tapioca! And I eat it with Lorna Doone (shortbread like) cookies - pretty much use them as the spoon.

[chaotic-binky.livejournal.com]

I have never tried it with shortbread!

Sometimes I make it with rice instead. Once tried making it with sago - never again! lol

Hugs Binky xxxx