Cover the tapioca with cold water and soak for one hour.  Drain off the cold water, add the boiling water and salt, and cook over water (in a double boiler if you have one) until the tapioca is transparent, and no hard center portion remains.  This will require about 30 minutes.  Place the apricots in a buttered baking dish.  Add sugar to the tapioca, pour this over the apricots, add apricot juice, and bake in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes.  Cool and serve.  If dried apricots are to be used, they should be soaked over night or several hours in cold water sufficient to cover them.  Cook in the water in which they have soaked until they are tender.

Cereal Pudding (8)

    Left over cereal, 3-1/2 cups
    Apple sauce, 1/2 cup or
    Apple, 1
    Sugar, 1 tablespoon
    Butter, 1 tablespoon
    Bread crumbs, 2 tablespoons

Put a layer of cereal in the bottom of a buttered baking dish, then a layer of apples or sauce, then sugar if the sauce has not been sweetened.  Then put in another layer of cereal, cover with buttered crumbs.  Bake 30 minutes if it has apple sauce in it, one hour if raw apples are used.  Serve with cream.

Cereal Date Pudding (11)

    Cereal (half corn meal and half farina), 3/4 cup
    Boiling water, 3 cups
    Salt, 3/4 teaspoon
    Chopped dates, 1 cup
    Oleomargarine, 1 tablespoon
    Corn syrup (light), 1/2 cup
    Egg, 1

Stir the cereal mixture gradually into the boiling water, to which the salt has been added.  Cook directly over the flame for about five minutes, stirring constantly, and then cook over water for one and one-half hours.  Add oleomargarine, syrup, egg, well beaten, and chopped dates.  Turn into a greased baking dish and bake for about 30 minutes in a moderate oven (360-390 deg.  F.).

Chocolate Bread Pudding (11)

    Bread, broken in small pieces, 2 1/2 cups
    Corn syrup (dark), 1/2 cup
    Brown sugar, 1/4 cup
    Egg, 1
    Salt, 1/4 teaspoon
    Chocolate, 2 squares
    Milk, 1 1/2 cups
    Hot water, 1 1/2 cups
    Vanilla, 3/4 teaspoon

Soak bread in milk; add syrup, brown sugar, egg, well beaten, and salt.  Melt chocolate in water; add gradually to bread mixture.  Add vanilla.  Bake in custard cups, set in hot water, in a moderate oven.

Eggless Steamed Pudding (11)

    Flour, 1 2/3 cups
    Soda, 1/2 teaspoon
    Salt, 1/4 teaspoon
    Cloves, 1/4 teaspoon
    Allspice, 1/4 teaspoon
    Nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon
    Cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon
    Hardened vegetable fat, 3 tablespoons
    Molasses, 1/2 cup
    Milk, 1/2 cup
    Raisins (seeded and cut in pieces), 1 cup