I found this easy-to-make, glamorous, high-protein desert recipe in Mireille Guiliano’s book French Women Don’t Get Fat
Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 cups whole milk
- 2/3 cups plus 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Cocoa or cinnamon powder for sprinkling
- Scald the milk in a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan. Add 1/3 cup of the sugar and the vanilla. Cover and remove from heat.
- Separate the eggs and reserve the egg yolks in a mixing bow.
- In another bowl, beat the whites with the salt until foamy and then gradually beat iin the 1 tablespoon of sugar. Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks.
- Return the saucepan with milk to the heat and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low.
- With a soup spoon, scoop out a mound of the egg whites and drop into the milk.
Cook gently for 2 minutes and turn gently to cook the other side for 2 minutes. Remove and drain on a dry towel. Let cool, then cover and refrigerate on a plate until ready to serve. - In the bowl containing the egg yolks, gradually beat in the remaining 1/3 cup of sugar and continue beating for 2 to 3 minutes until the mixture is pale yellow and forms a ribbon. Gradually add the hot milk in a thin stream to slowly warm the yolks and avoid scrambling them. Chill the custard in a serving bowl.
- When ready to serve, place the poached egg whites on top of the custard.
- Sprinkle the egg whites with cocoa or cinnamon powder.
More, Tapioca Pudding, stove top method.
Tapioca Pudding, Slow-cooker method.
I have that book, too! Love it! Are those your little ones? Too cute- I mean, very handsome! 🙂
Yummers. Tapioca pudding. I erred when mine were itty bitty, though, and called the tapioca “frogs eyes.”
They’ve never touched it since.
I’ve read the book, too.
My mother always made this, we knew it by the Hungarian name “Mada’r tej”, or “Bird’s Milk”. ( Tha second A is supposed to have an accent .. pronounced mud-ahr tay )
In my disrespectful moments, i call it “Bird Turds”, cause it’s white plops in a yellowish cream …. but delicious. Not sure if you’re boys would go for that name, or if they’ll be allowed to hear of it.
Tom