Banna Pudding

This post is for my dear friend and her banana pudding addicted husband!

Ingredients:

2-3 ripe bananas, sliced

Vanilla wafers (personal preference is Jackson's Old Fashioned brand and using 3/4 the bag)

3/4 cup sugar

1/3 cup all-purpose flour

3 cups milk

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

3 eggs, separated (use the yolk for the pudding and whites for meringue)

1/3 cup sugar

1. Combine 3/4 sugar, flour, and milk in medium saucepan. Heat over medium heat until mixture thickens and begins to boil. Stir mixture often so to not scorch the milk.
2. To separate eggs: try to crack shells in half, alternate yolk to each half carefully allowing egg white to fall into bowl. You don't want to over handle the yoke since it will break and mix into eggs whites. I would suggest only about 4 times on transporting between shell halves. Once eggs are separated, beat egg yolks.
3. To combine eggs with saucepan mixture, take 3 spoon fulls milk mixture and stir into beaten egg yolks. This will prevent the eggs for cooking instantly when added to hot milk mixture. Add yolks to saucepan and stir until mixture boils.
4. Boil gently for one minute then stir in vanilla and remove from heat.
5. For meringue, use an electric mixer to beat egg whites until foamy. Gradually add 1/3 cup sugar while continuing beating. Continue beating until stiff peaks form.
6. In baking dish, alternate layers of wafers, banana, and pudding mixture. Spread top with meringue. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Remove from oven to cool then refrigerate until pudding sets (roughly 2 hours).

Using a non-cooked recipe or pudding pack maybe be simpler but definitely cannot compare in taste!

This will for sure be a crowd favorite!