Banana Pudding

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 dash salt
• 4 cups whole milk
• 6 egg yolks
• 2 tablespoons margarine
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 (12 ounce) box vanilla wafers

Recipe

• 1 separate egg yokes and whites (discard whites or use for something else). add the vanilla and magarine to the egg yokes. beat and set aside.
• 2 mix sugar, flour, and salt together thoroughly in medium saucepan. slowly add milk, a little at a time, stirring to prevent lumps. turn burner to medium heat and stir constantly until smooth and somewhat thick. (pudding will thicken some while cooling).
• 3 remove from heat and pour small amount into bowl with egg mixture, stirring while you add the hot pudding. then add that mixture back into the hot pudding, stirring well.
• 4 let pudding cool in pan for 15 minutes, stirring one time about half way through cooling. while it's cooling layer large bowl with vanilla wafers and place a layer of sliced bananas on top of wafers. after the 15 minutes, pour 1/2 of pudding over banana and wafer layer; repeat layer of wafer and banana then pour remainder of pudding over that. top with a layer of sliced bananas with wafers on top this time. chill and serve.
• 5 note: i always tend to not scrape the pan real clean in order to make some 'banana bites' for the grandkids and adults alike. there are always a few extra wafers. place a slice of banana on a wafer and top with a dollop of pudding -- presto 'banana bites' to tempt the tastebuds for pudding later.