North Carolina Banana Pudding

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

 * 1) Blend sugar, salt, and flour.
 * 2) Add 1 whole egg and 3 yolks and mix together.
 * 3) Stir in milk.
 * 4) Cook in a double boiler over boiling water, stirring, until thickened.
 * 5) Remove from heat and cool.
 * 6) 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)
 * 7) Continue, making three layers of each.
 * 8) Make a meringue of remaining three egg whites and 6 tablespoons of sugar.
 * 9) Spread over banana mixture and brown in 375°F oven.
 * 10) Place in the refrigerator and let sit a minimum of 24 hours before serving (ah, no samples out of the corners, please!)