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Default From-scratch old-fashioned banana pudding (was: Creamy Banana Pudding

Oh pshaw, on Wed 17 Oct 2007 08:40:07a, Nancy2 meant to say...

> On Oct 13, 9:17 am, (Mike Van Pelt) wrote:
>> I made this a while back, and it was great. No pre-packaged
>> anything. (Well, except for the vanilla wafers).
>>
>> It wasn't difficult.
>>
>> Old Fashioned Bananan Pudding
>>
>> Pudding
>>
>> * 1 cup sugar
>> * 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
>> * 1/2 teaspoon salt
>> * 2 cups milk
>> * 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
>> * 1 tablespoon butter
>> * 4 egg yolks
>> * 1 box of vanilla Wafers
>> * 4-5 ripe bananas --
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>
> Sounds like a keeper, although vanilla wafers and meringue don't
> belong in pudding. I'd call this a banana cream pie, not a pudding.
> But that's just me. ;-)
>
> N.
>
>


A traditional "southern" banana pudding _always_ has vanilla wafers and
meringue. A banana cream pie of any merit has a pastry crust and either
whipped cream or meringue on top. In the South, "that's the law"!

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