This section is from the book "More Recipes For Fifty", by Frances Lowe Smith. Also available from Amazon: More Recipes For Fifty.
2 cups tapioca
1 quart cold water
3 quarts boiling water 1 quart sugar or less
1/2 pound chocolate 8 egg whites 1 tablespoon vanilla 1 teaspoon salt
Soak one or more hours, in cold water, if it is pearl tapioca; add cold water, and stir at once into boiling water, if it is minute tapioca. Cook until transparent in double boiler; add salt, sugar, and chocolate, and cook half an hour longer. Remove from fire, fold into stiffly beaten whites of eggs; add vanilla, and chill.
 
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