Mom's Banana Pudding
Southern-style banana pudding with homemade vanilla custard, fresh bananas, and toasted meringue.
Shared by Ronald Skelton in honor of Mom Kathy
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Mom brought this to every potluck and it never came home with leftovers. She layered it in the same Pyrex dish for 30 years. I haven't had this in years as I'm the only one in my family that eats banana pudding — but thankfully she wrote this one down on a card tucked inside and old Good Housekeeping cookbook.
First cooked by Kathy L Skelton, Oklahoma ~1978 · Treasured by Ronald Skelton, 2026
A few photos from that meal
AI illustration of this dish — not a family photo
Kathy L. Skelton - Mom
AI-rendered recipe card — an illustration, not the original
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 3 cup s whole milk
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 box nilla wafers
- 4 ripe bananas
Directions
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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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