Holiday Cooking

Bahh Humbug!!!  Holidays are not for kids, they are for the grown up's who only get to eat sweets til they drop this time of year.  Diets and eating right goes right out the window when the food starts to cook!!  On the request board this year is for me to try to make my Mom's famous Banana Pudding!!! Yeah, Okay!!!  I haven't made it in years.  I think Mama was in the kitchen with me and coaching me along as she was making one of her other sweet treats.  From Thanksgiving through the first of the year our kitchen had the best smell and the sweet treats and the good food was on the stove 24/7.

She loved to watch people enjoy the food she made.  Trust me, there was always a house full for her to watch!!   My Dad's always said it was a tight race between the banana pudding and her fried apple pies!  I can remember one Christmas when my oldest was small he and Daddy slipped around and got coffee and milk and took the whole plate with the apple pies on it to the back porch.  Daddy had them a little place to stay warm and they were having themselves a snack!  I sure do miss my folks, make you some memories this year.

Granny's Banana Pudding

1 c. sugar
2 tbsp. (heaping) flour
3 egg yolks
2 c. milk
1 tbsp. vanilla
1 box vanilla wafers
3-5 bananas

Layer bananas, then wafers in oven proof medium bowl. In saucepan add sugar and egg yolks; mix well adding milk when needed. Add flour to egg mixture, then the rest of the milk; mix well. Add vanilla, stir constantly on medium heat until thick and smooth. Pour over wafers and bananas.Make topping from egg whites. Beat egg whites until stiff. Add 3 tablespoons sugar. Beat again. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla; beat again. Lightly brown in oven.  Mama used mini marshmallows as a topping sometimes.  Just spread them over the top of the pudding and lightly brown them in the oven.