Grandmother's Banana Pudding
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 eggs, separated
- 2 tablespoons flour
- Dash salt
- 2 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Vanilla cookies (recommended: Nilla Wafers)
- 4 bananas
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- Prepare a double boiler.
- Mix together 1/2 cup sugar, egg yolks, flour and salt.
- Add milk and mix again.
- Heat on stove until the custard sticks to the sides of pan, approximately 20 minutes.
- Add vanilla after mixture has thickened.
- Let cool.
- To assemble: Put few drops of pudding in the bottom of a 2-quart dish and spread around.
- Layer Nilla Wafers and cut up 2 bananas, add 1/2 of custard, repeat layer and arrange wafers around the sides.
- In a separate bowl beat egg whites with 1/4 cup sugar and cream of tartar until it forms stiff peaks, spread on pudding and bake in a preheated 425 degree F oven for 4 minutes, just brown on top.
- Serve warm or cold.
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Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/grandmothers-banana-pudding-recipe.html (may not work)