Pearl Tapioca Pudding

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 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

Recipe

• 1 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.
• 2 stir gently once in a while. chill.
• 3 add walnuts and vanilla.
• 4 pour in a deep glass dish and cover with sweetened whipped cream.
• 5 this is easy to do in crock-pot and takes no watching.
• 6 serves 8.
• 7 recipe may be doubled.
• 8 variation: add the juice from 1 can crushed pineapple to the water to make 3 cups.
• 9 fold in the pineapple before cooling.
• 10 just before serving, you may wish to add fresh chopped peanuts.