Banana Custard Pudding

Total Time: 2 hrs 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 25
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 1 packet vanilla wafer (12-oz)
• 7 cups milk
• 9 medium bananas, peeled & sliced
• 4 egg yolks, beaten

Recipe

• 1 combine sugar, flour, and cornstarch in a medium mixing bowl.
• 2 mix well, and set aside.
• 3 pour milk into a large saucepan; cook over medium heat until candy thermometer registers 160 deg f.
• 4 gradually stir one-fourth of hot milk into yolks; stir into reserved dry ingredients, and add to remaining hot milk.
• 5 cook, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and coats the spoon.
• 6 remove from heat, and stir in butter and vanilla.
• 7 let cool to room temperature.
• 8 line bottom of a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish with one-third of the vanilla wafers.
• 9 arrange half of banana slices over wafers; top with half of cooled custard.
• 10 repeat layers, reserving one-third of wafers to crumble and sprinkle over custard.
• 11 chill thoroughly.