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Tapioca Pudding with Apples - 1894 Style

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

From a 19th century recipe for tapioca pudding with apples

Ingredients:

  • 1 teacup tapioca
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 pints cold water
  • 6 large apples
  • sugar
  • grated nutmeg
  • lemon peel
  • 1 cup water
  • butter
  • sugar

Preparation:

Soak one teacup of tapioca and one teaspoon of salt in one and one-half pints of cold water for five hours; keep in a warm place but do not cook. Two hours before dinner, pare and core six large apples; place them in a pudding dish; fill the cavities made by removing cores with sugar and a little grated nutmeg, or lemon peel; add a cup of water, and bake one hour, turning the apples to prevent them drying. When quite soft, turn over them the tapioca. Bake one hour longer. Serve with hard sauce of butter and sugar.

MRS. DR. FISHER.

Recipes 1894 Style |Puddings 1894 Style

Adapted from Recipes Tried and True, compiled by the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Presbyterian Church, Marion, Ohio, 1894, a source in the public domain.

The recipes in this collection are representative of cooking in America in the late 19th century, and the compilation of a cookbook shows the ways in which women were beginning to organize and act both within their traditional roles and outside of traditional expectations. The recipes are presented exactly as written in 1894, and may not conform to current nutritional or food preparation standards. Try at your own risk.

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