Best and Easiest Tapioca Pudding

Directions

1. 1
   Everything but the eggs go into a large saucepan.
2. 2
   Stir the saucepan mixture and let it sit for 45 min.
3. 3
   In a separate bowl, mix the eggs into a scramble.
4. 4
   After 45 minutes, heat the saucepan on medium low (up to medium depending upon your level of patience and love for constant stirring) stirring fairly frequently.
5. 5
   When the tapioca pearls become soft and not starchy, then you want to ladle, 1/4 cup at a time, about a cup and a half of the heated mixture into the bowl of eggs, stirring after every ladleful.
6. 6
   Put the egg mixture into the saucepan with the rest of the mixture, and stir fairly frequently until the mixture thickens and feels like a bit of very light work to stir.
7. 7
   If you burn the bottom, as can happen with heated milk dishes, do not scrape the bottom; switch saucepans!
8. 8
   Pour the mixture into decorative dessert glasses, or, if you are feeling less festive and are serving starving kids (so they say), put it all into a large casserole dish to cool in the refrigerator.
9. 9
   When it doesn't slosh when you jostle it in the refrigerator, take it out, as it is ready to serve.
10. 10
    Serving suggestion: a drizzle of chocolate sauce and/or banana slices!