Chilled Vanilla Tapioca Pudding with Summer Fruit

• 1 oz / 30 g tapioca
• 1¼ pt / 710

Put the tapioca, milk and vanilla pod in a heavy saucepan. Bring slowly to the boil, and simmer gently for 15–20 minutes, until the tapioca is cooked. Remove from the heat, and take out the vanilla pod. Split it, scrape out the sticky black seeds, and stir them back into the tapioca with a little sugar and the cream. Stir in the fruit and chill until required. The consistency, when chilled, sho