Tapioca Custard Pudding

Ingredients

• 4 cups scalded milk
• ⅔ cup pearl tapioca
• 3 eggs
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon butter

Method

Soak tapioca one hour in cold water to cover, drain, add to milk, and cook in double boiler thirty minutes; beat eggs slightly, add sugar and salt, pour on gradually hot mixture, turn into buttered pudding-dish, add butter, bake thirty minutes in slow oven.