Margaret Makes: Tapioca Pudding

Welcome to our first installment of Margaret Makes --the cooking show where Mom shows us her secret methods of making our childhood favorites. Be sure to submit ideas for future episodes.

Here's the video we shot a couple of weeks ago. (Forgive the unpolished editing; this is more of a family history project anyway.)

Check out this measuring spoon. Pretty sure that's the secret to all of Mom's cooking.


And this is the brand of tapioca she uses.


Minute Tapioca the Way Mom Makes It (She triples these amounts for her large pot)

3 T Minute Tapioca
2 3/4 cups milk, divided
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla

Mix tapioca and 2 cups of milk in large saucepan or pot. Add sugar and let sit for 5 minutes to allow the tapioca to soften a bit. Beat egg in bowl and mix in remaining milk. Add egg/milk mixture to pot. Stir until combined. Bring to a full boil over medium high heat. Boil and stir constantly for 10 minutes until full and foamy. Add vanilla. Pudding will thicken as it cools.

If you remember a time when Mom separated the egg and beating the whites and folding them in later, she did indeed do that. Mom prefers a denser pudding so she doesn't do that anymore.

And I'm pretty sure it's the law that it's eaten out of these fancy dishes.

Big thanks to Mom for being such a good sport. I told her I wanted a picture of her eating the pudding and this is what she did for me. It makes me so happy and her pudding really is this good.

What would you like to see Margaret make next?