In honor of Mama · Mother
Mama's Banana Pudding
Southern-style banana pudding with homemade vanilla custard, fresh bananas, and toasted meringue.
Shared by Integration Test in honor of Mama
Prep25 min
Cook15 min + chill
Serves10-12
Ingredients10 items
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Mama brought this to every church potluck and it never came home with leftovers. She layered it in the same Pyrex dish for 30 years. When she passed, we fought over the dish more than the recipe — but thankfully she wrote this one down on a card tucked inside the Good Housekeeping cookbook.
“Her Pyrex dish was at every gathering. She never let anyone else bring dessert.”
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 3 cups whole milk
- 4 egg yolks, whites reserved for meringue
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 box Nilla wafers
- 4
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Make vanilla pudding from scratch — cook milk, sugar, cornstarch, egg yolks on stove until thick. Add vanilla and butter off heat. Layer Nilla wafers, sliced bananas, pudding in dish. Repeat layers 3 times ending with pudding. Top with meringue (beat egg whites and sugar to stiff peaks). Brown meringue under broiler 2-3 min. Chill at least 4 hours.
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