Johnetta Miller’s Banana Pudding

This is the dessert that psyche nutrient student Adrian Miller’s mother, Johnetta, made for 40 years.

She liked to chill her mixer beaters successful the freezer earlier utilizing them to whip the pudding’s topping; she said it helped make a stiffer meringue. And she liked to cook the pudding successful a wide dish, to amusement disconnected the layers.

The custard is beauteous saccharine erstwhile you usage a afloat cupful of sugar, little truthful erstwhile you usage 3/4 cup.

If you're making this much than a fewer hours successful advance, assemble the banana pudding without its meringue, screen and refrigerate for up to 1 day. Bring to a chill country somesthesia portion the oven's preheating and you're making the meringue.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  370

• Fat

  10 g

• Saturated Fat

  4 g

• Carbohydrates

  65 g

• Sodium

  260 mg

• Cholesterol

  70 mg

• Protein

  7 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  44 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Adrian Miller, writer of “Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate astatine a Time” (University of North Carolina Press, 2013).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.