Homemade Banana Pudding

• 2 cups milk
• 1 ¼ cup sugar
• 6 eggs separated (yolks in pot/whites in bowl)
• 2 heaping tablespoons flour
• 1 tsp vanilla
• pinch of salt
• 8 bananas
• 2 boxes Vanilla Wafers

• In a 9 x 13 pan layer in order wafers on bottom then 4 bananas sliced then wafers then 4 bananas sliced then last layer wafers.

Pudding:

• In a 2 or 3 qt. pot on stove over medium high heat add 6 egg yokes, 1 cup sugar,  2 tsp flour and 2 cups milk, whisk until no lumps and switch to spoon.
• Stir until it thickens a little and coats the back of a spoon.
• Turn heat off and add 1 tsp vanilla extract and pour over your banana and wafers.

Meringue:

• Place 6 eggs whites in a metal or glass bowl that has been chilled in freezer for about 10 minutes.
• Use hand mixer on high, once starting to foam up add pinch of salt and add sugar a little at a time, until eggs whites gets stiff and form peeks.
• Spread evenly over your wafer and banana after you put in pudding from stove.
• Broil in oven for about 1 min to brown the meringue (watch it closely as the sugar will burn quickly).
• Let cool for an hour and then cover and place in fridge over night and serve the next day.

If I do not make this for the holidays my kids think I have lost my mind!!!