Recipes from Sage House

BANANA PUDDING Ingredients: • 3 ½ tbsp.

• All-Purpose flour • 1 1/3 cup sugar • Dash of salt • 3 eggs – separated (do NOT get any yolk in the whites) • 3 cups evaporated milk • 2 tsp. vanilla extract • Box of Vanilla Wafers • 6 bananas • ¼ cup & 2 tbsp. sugar • ¼ cup margarine Instructions: Pudding 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Combine flour, 1 1/3 cup sugar, & dash of salt in heavy saucepan. In bowl, mix egg yolks & milk until frothy. Stir into dry ingredients. Cook over medium heat stirring constantly until smooth & thickened.

2. Remove from heat then stir in margarine & 1 tsp vanilla extract. Grease 13x9 pan.

3. Layer 1/3 wafers, bananas, pudding. Repeat 2x for a total of 3 layers.

Meringue 1. Beat egg whites till frothy. Add remaining sugar to egg whites 1 tbsp at a time beating until stiff peaks form. Add 1 tsp vanilla extract & beat until blended.

2. Spread meringue over pudding & smooth to seal & keep from shrinking.

Bake for 8-10 mins until golden brown. Watch carefully because it will burn quickly.

A Leboff family favorite via my great grandmother Adelaide Smith 35