Apple Tapioca Pudding
1 teacup tapioca 1¹⁄₂ pints warm water 6 apples 1 lemon 1 tea-spoon butter 1 cup milk 1 cup powdered sugar
Soak the tapioca in the water. Add to it the butter, melted, a little salt, half the sugar and the milk. Peel and core six sour apples, filling them with the rest of the sugar with which the juice of half a lemon and the grated peel of a whole lemon have been mixed. Put the apples into a deep pudding-dish. Pour the tapioca and milk round them. Bake an hour.
This pudding may be made with plums, gooseberries or currants; they should be well sweetened.