Miss Myra's Banana Pudding

Name: Miss Myra's Banana Pudding
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 4 cups Nilla Wafers; 5 ripe bananas, sliced into 1/3-inch rounds; 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar; 1/3 cup all-purpose flour; 2 1/3 cups milk; 3 large egg yolks; 2 tablespoons salted butter; 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract; 4 large egg whites; 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar; 3/4 cup superfine sugar

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Andrew Zimmern’s Kitchen AdventuresThis recipe is not an April Fools’ prank. Why would you think it was? Because Miss Myra never shares it…but she did with me. And when I tell you, without equivocation, that it’s the most famous, most amazing, best tasting banana pudding recipe in the world, trust me, it is. Four generations have carefully guarded this recipe as the perfect finish to the barbecued chicken with white sauce dinner for which Miss Myra’s Pit Bar B-Q, near Birmingham, Alabama, has been famous for, running on three decades now. Enjoy. It’s dessert heaven. — Andrew Zimmern Slideshow: More Delicious Bread Pudding Recipes

By Andrew Zimmern

April 2013

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Recipe Summary

active:

40 mins

total:

1 hr

Yield:

Directions

make the banana pudding

Step 1
In a 9-inch square baking dish, arrange half of the wafers in a single layer. Top with half of the bananas. Repeat with the remaining wafers and bananas.

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Step 2
In a medium bowl, whisk the sugar with the flour. In a large saucepan, gently heat the milk until hot but not bubbling. Whisk in the sugar mixture in three batches, then whisk in the egg yolks. Cook over moderate heat, stirring frequently, until the custard is thickened and pudding-like, 5 to 8 minutes. Whisk in the butter and vanilla. Pour the hot custard over the wafers and let stand at room temperature for 20 minutes. Refrigerate until chilled, then cover and refrigerate overnight.

make the meringue

Step 1
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk, combine the egg whites, vanilla and cream of tartar. Beat at high speed until soft peaks form, 1 to 2 minutes. With the machine on, add the sugar 1 tablespoon at a time; beat until smooth, glossy, just-firm peaks form, about 2 minutes. (Do not overbeat or the meringue will become grainy.) Spread the meringue evenly over the banana pudding, swirling it decoratively. If you have a kitchen torch, you can brûlée the meringue if desired.

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SheltieMom33

05/24/2022

I had such high hopes for this recipe after watching it on the Zimmern List. Followed the recipe exactly but the custard/pudding is SOO THICK it is more like jello by the time it’s cooled. The flavour was good but the pudding didn’t even make it to the bottom layers of banana and wafers because it was much too thick to flow down. Ended up throwing it out sadly. Maybe there’s a tweak Miss Myra didn’t tell us…

Stephanie Estes

05/14/2020

custard is very thick, hoping this flows through the layers of cookies and bananas in the dish. I did some thumping to try to get it to start. Hopefully the fridge time will get things to settle in. BTW...love the observation about cake layers! Been looking for that perfect custard to go between layers in a coconut cake. Definitely going to try this custard for that. Taste definitely reminds me of that. Cheers!

GreenQuill232

04/27/2020

This is delicious. My kids love it. Tips: 1) Wait until the bananas are freckled but not overripe. Overripe doesn't work well. 2) This is a sticky pudding. If you like it less sticky, either reduce the flour OR use 3 1/3 cups milk with no reduction in flour. That worked for me, although an adjustment in the sugar and eggs was needed for the same rich taste. 3) My 11-year-old son, who has made this a half dozen times, says this is not enough pudding. He suggests making 1.5x or 2x the recipe.

osaheartssiggi

07/19/2017

Great

will atkins

04/08/2017

Great

Farrah Junior

04/05/2017

Hmmm

Kenona Bennett

01/22/2017

fisherhr

01/20/2017

False reviews: why do I have to write a review to see reviews.

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