Nanny's Banana Pudding

 

Ingredients

4 cups of milk

1 cup of sugar

½ cup of flower

2 eggs

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1 bag of vanilla wafers

4 bananas

½ tablespoon lemon juice

Yellow food coloring

 

Preparation

Start off by collecting your ingredients and put them together on their own.  My Nanny would make this dish anytime we wanted it.  She, most of the time, would bring it every Christmas, Halloween, New Years Eve, Thanksgiving, or Birthdays.  I was never there when she would make it but I think this is how it would have happened.  My Papaw would go to Wall-Mart just about every single day just to pick up little things like a 12 pack of Cokes, bag of Cheetos, some snickers, or whatever.  But when my Nanny would tell him to go to the store to pick up what she needed he would.  Meanwhile my Nanny would probably be sitting on the couch watching some TV with the heater on still in her night gown.  My Papaw would have gone to the store, buy what he needed, then he would go back home and give the ingredients to my Nanny.  My Nanny would then start making the banana pudding.  She would start off by grabbing the bowl that she had always put the pudding in.  Next, she would put 4 cups of milk, 1 cup of sugar, ½ cup of flower, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, and 2-4 squirts of yellow food coloring to the mixer.  After that was done, she would blend it all together for a few minutes.  Meanwhile, if it were a Monday or Friday night, my Papaw would be sitting in his chair watching either Monday night RAW or Friday night Smackdown or the news if it were any other day of the week.  Next, she would take the wafers out of its bag and split ¾ of the bag in half and use the other ¼ for decoration on top.  After that, she would cut up the 4 bananas into little slices.  Next, she would take the mixture of awesomeness and put in the bananas and wafers into the mixture and stir it for a bit.  After that she would put cellophane on it and then put it in the refrigerator to cool.  The next day, she would take it out and put the last bit of wafers on top for decoration and pour a half tablespoon of lemon juice over the pudding.  Next, she would put fresh cellophane to cover it for transport to my grandparent’s house.

My Nanny and Papaw would then get ready to leave their house and go to my grandparent’s house.  When they arrive, most everyone is there already.  If it’s Christmas Day they would come by at lunch.  My family stays the night at my grandparent’s house for Christmas.  We would already be up and ready for lunch when they finally arrived.  We then would eat lunch with my aunt and uncle, mom and dad, cousins, my sisters, grandparents, and my Nanny and Papaw.  We eat different things every year for Christmas Day lunch.  After that, we eat desserts which consist of Nanny’s banana pudding, pecan pie, and other things.  I personally don’t like sweets, but my Nanny’s banana pudding is like Heaven on Earth.  I love it. 
My Nanny died on February 11, 2012. She died because of old age, she was 87. Before she died, she gave the recipe to my grandma.  She is the one who make it every time it is needed. Before my Papaw died, we had a black lady named Estella take care of him for us.  She also knew how to make banana pudding. She would make it any time we asked her to.  Her recipe is a little bit different from Nanny’s but Nanny’s was still the best. My grandma makes it for us now. At first it didn't taste right, but after a few more times of her making it it started to taste better. Now when she makes it it tastes just like now Nanny used to make it.