It might be easier to make banana pudding with a pudding mix, but it won’t be as rich and delicious as this!
Old Fashioned Banana Pudding
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 egg yolks
2 bananas
3 cups vanilla wafers
2 egg whites
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Beat egg yolks. Add mixed sugar and flour alternately with milk until all the milk has been added then add salt. Place in double boiler and cook until mixture thickens, then add vanilla. Cool pudding mixture. Place a layer of vanilla wafers in bottom of Pyrex dish, slice a banana and place over vanilla wafers, then pour half of the pudding over bananas. Repeat. Top with meringue and brown lightly at 325°.
To make meringue, beat egg whites at high speed until stiff. Add 1/3 cup sugar, continue beating then add vanilla.
