North Carolina Banana Pudding

== Description ==
Contributed by Catsrecipes Y-Group
* Source: North Carolina and Old Salem Cookery, 1955
== Ingredients ==
* ½ cup sugar
* pinch of salt
* 3 tablespoons of flour
* 4 eggs
* 2 cups milk
* vanilla wafers
* bananas (preferably with skins that are just starting to turn black)
* 6 tablespoons sugar
== Directions ==
# Blend sugar, salt, and flour.
# Add 1 whole egg and 3 yolks and mix together.
# Stir in milk.
# Cook in a double boiler over boiling water, stirring, until thickened.
# Remove from heat and cool.
# In a baking dish, arrange a layer of whole vanilla wafers, a layer of sliced bananas and a layer of custard (use more wafers for a drier pudding and less for a soupy one)
# Continue, making three layers of each.
# Make a meringue of remaining three egg whites and 6 tablespoons of sugar.
# Spread over banana mixture and brown in 375°F oven.
# Place in the refrigerator and let sit a minimum of 24 hours before serving (ah, no samples out of the corners, please!)
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