Tapioca Pudding

[Bob Riebe]

Just made myself a Dutch Oven full of tapioca, and I mean full. Do not know how many quarts those old all aluminum Dutch oven hold but this one is full to one inch of the top.

The other half will eat a little and I may -- may -- save a quart for my brother but the rest if for me, me, me, me....

[ironglow]

  You're talking good stuff right there.  My late wife loved the stuff, and I rather liked it too.

[Bob Riebe]

Went to the thrift store yesterday and bought three boxes of Cook and Serve Tapioca pudding; will some of my own tapioca pearls and have another feast one of these days.

[JBinMN]

I have not had real tapioca pudding in years.
Right after I read your OP I thought about it & even looked when I went to the local grocery store, but the price was high enough to make me decide to wait until I find better prices for it.

Little town & the store jacks up the prices cuz they know we have to drive about 20 miles in any direction to find competition.

B-tards.

It is one thing to try to support local business, but this is a franchise store, Family Fare, & they are "not" local.
Sure some of the folks working there are locals, but it is not "owned" locally.
One grocery store in town , but 2 hardware stores. Can't even buy a pair of shoes or pants/trousers in this little place, so while I try to shop local, I have to travel one way 20+ miles to get things they do not have, or order online.

Anyway, I rambled.

Still gonna make some tapioca, just have to wait until the next trip out of town it seems unless I want to pay the $$ here.

[Bob Riebe]

I have not had real tapioca pudding in years.
Right after I read your OP I thought about it & even looked when I went to the local grocery store, but the price was high enough to make me decide to wait until I find better prices for it.

Little town & the store jacks up the prices cuz they know we have to drive about 20 miles in any direction to find competition.

B-tards.
It is one thing to try to support local business, but this is a franchise store, Family Fare, & they are "not" local.
Sure some of the folks working there are locals, but it is not "owned" locally.
One grocery store in town , but 2 hardware stores. Can't even buy a pair of shoes or pants/trousers in this little place, so while I try to shop local, I have to travel one way 20+ miles to get things they do not have, or order online.

Anyway, I rambled.
Still gonna make some tapioca, just have to wait until the next trip out of town it seems unless I want to pay the $$ here.

I am in a town of tens of thousands but finding any Tapioca Pearls here that are not from Reese or Instant  Tapioca is next to impossible (Reese no longer has the extra large pearls I used to use).

Even in a town of this size, a local family (whose chain started here) is now run by the greedy sons (of B) who used to buy land where another chain was thinking of opening a store.
So as is we have, three chains of stores to buy groceries, for year it was them, multiple stores and one other.
Over a decade back when another regional chain did open, with lower prices, suddenly the sob chains prices dropped, but they bought that store when it closed.

Any way, I get my Tapioca Pearls online and buy large bags which last me years.
But even there the bigger than simple large pearls are getting hard to find, except for oriental orginated Bubble Tea pearls that showed up about ten years ago and I have not used as they are bigger than the extra large ones I prefer.

[Bob Riebe]

Just made myself a Dutch Oven full of tapioca, and I mean full. Do not know how many quarts those old all aluminum Dutch oven hold but this one is full to one inch of the top.

The other half will eat a little and I may -- may -- save a quart for my brother but the rest if for me, me, me, me....

Well I was arranging the food store room and found the large bag of Tapioca Pearl mentioned above, SO, two days ago dumped two cups of pearls into said same Dutch Oven , and let it soak over night in whole milk

Next day I added almost two cup so very heavy cream , two cups of whole milk, a healthy pour of vanilla, a pinch of salt, honey, maple syrup, and some sugar.
It was not quite as high in the D O as I wanted so I added one-half cup of hot water, put it on the range just short of high, and grabbed some eggs.
Now they sere a mix of aged store bough Jumbo, and farm eggs from mixed hens.
I used five farm eggs and four store bought; the store bought were cracked ad the other half and eggs to not get along real well.

Did the warm the eggs with the warming milk mixture and poured the stirred eggs in.
Stood there for a little over one-half hour stirring constantly; UUUUUUMMMMMMM GOOOOOOD.

It was gone by yesterday so I made another batch with only farm eggs , and brown sugar.,
This time I put the Sugar, and Vanilla in the soaking mixture and added a healthy shot of white whiskey to the mixed eggs.
I is never the creamy pudding you get out of a box as I got tired of the extra dickering around it takes to get it that way over 40 years ago.
It is semi-liquid hot, but I love the semi-solid way it sets-up when it cools down.
 It is already half gone and I may get a hankerin for another batch, soon.

Now I used to cook family dinners, but have not for quite some time , SO, I was surprised, this was as much as I used to make for Ma, Dad and my Brother (did not last long), I was surprised how quickly one can go through and dozen eggs and a half-gallon of milk.
Made me re-realize why so many people raise chickens.
The Fridge is packed, the other half just keeps jamming stuff in there till nothing else can go in, but with the price of Dairy products go up I going to buy more Dairy products and put it in the freezer.