Pearl Tapioca Pudding - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3/4 cup pearl tapioca
3 cups water
2 1/4 cups brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup walnut halves
1 teaspoon vanilla

Preparation

In crock-pot combine tapioca (large round kind, no substitutes) and water and soak overnight. Add brown sugar and salt; cover and cook for 12 hours on low.
Stir gently once in a while. Chill.
Add walnuts and vanilla.
Pour in a deep glass dish and cover with sweetened whipped cream.
This is easy to do in crock-pot and takes no watching.
Serves 8.
Recipe may be doubled.
Variation: Add the juice from 1 can crushed pineapple to the water to make 3 cups.
Fold in the pineapple before cooling.
Just before serving, you may wish to add fresh chopped peanuts.