The recipe was published in the cookbook “Dollywood Tennessee Mountain Home Cooking.” It features three banana pudding variations, but only this dessert, made from scratch, is named after D. Parton herself.
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This is a classic American dessert, layering bananas, vanilla wafers, and homemade cooked pudding, topped with fluffy meringue.
How to make it?
First, preheat the oven to 175 degrees. In a large baking dish, layer sliced bananas and vanilla wafers. You can reserve some to decorate the dessert.
Then separate the yolks from six eggs. In a pot, mix sugar, flour, egg yolks, butter, and a pinch of salt. Gradually pour in the milk and heat the mixture while stirring constantly until it thickens. Finally, add a little vanilla extract.
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Pour the prepared pudding over the banana and wafer layers.
To prepare the meringue, beat the egg whites with lemon juice, sugar, and vanilla until stiff peaks form. Spread it over the pudding.
Bake the dessert for about 10 minutes until the surface is nicely browned. The given quantity should yield about 12 servings.
This nostalgic homemade dessert perfectly reflects Dolly Parton’s favorite simple Southern US cuisine – hearty, sweet, and meant to be shared with others.
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