Old Fashioned Tapioca Pudding

Ingredients

3 cups whole milk

1/2 cup Tapioca

1/2 cup Cane Sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 large eggs, beaten

1 tablespoon vanilla

 

Directions

Stir together the milk, tapioca, sugar, and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat, then stir constantly and reduce the heat to low. cook and stir 5 minutes longer.

Whisk 1 cup of the hot milk mixture into the beaten eggs slowly tempering the eggs add 2 tablespoons at a time until incorporated.

Stir the egg mixture back into the tapioca until well mixed. Then bring the pudding to a gentle simmer over medium low heat cook and stir 2 minutes longer until the pudding becomes thick enough to evenly coat the back of a spoon.

Remove it from the heat then stir in the vanilla.

Refrigerate several hours until cold and keep any leftovers in the refrigerator.