There are really only two ways to make it -- the right way and the wrong way. Moreover, many recipes have been adapted using vanilla or banana pudding instead of a true custard. Of course, for most folks today, it’s never that complicated. AA History But the banana pudding we know and love wasn't born until 1921, when a home cook named Laura Kerley provided her recipe to Pantagraph in Bloomington, Illinois. Learn how to season this Southern kitchen staple in five easy steps. "Make and chill a pint of custard, the recipe instructs, then line 'a pretty dish' with alternating layers of sliced sponge cake and sliced bananas. Add your sugar and raisins into bowl, mix well. Baron, Matthew. This will create a light, smooth and velvety texture to your pudding. [4] Furthermore, it closely resembles an English Trifle in that it is assembled in layers and includes custard, fruit, sponge cake, and whipped cream. We’ve assembled a list of 50 of the world’s most reliable, inexpensive wines – bottles that offer amazing quality for their price year in and year out. (More life a Chiffon). Retrieved from https://www.seriouseats.com/2015/03/history-southern-banana-pudding.html, The Kendall College Trust Provides Resources and Opportunities that Support Educational Advancement and Career Development for Students with Financial Need, Kendall College Trust Take 1/3 of the whipped cream and fold into the banana pudding mixture. I say you can mix the two schools of thought by using boxed cookies with homemade custard (with cooked, almost caramelized bananas used to flavor it) and whipped cream that is served chilled. For the purpose of this blog, I would like to identify the origins of a dessert that has been prepared over decades long enough to have made it to my 21st century palate. Vanilla wafers were invented early in the 1900s by a German confectioner on Staten Island–again, far from the south. The first mention of banana pudding seems to be from 1878 in a New York Times column called "Information Wanted." Some say you can use store-bought ingredients: Nilla wafers, sliced bananas, instant pudding mix, and Cool Whip on top. Futz, and you have something different. Banana pudding is a sweet treat loved by many, its legion of fans often possessing very strong opinions about what exactly makes the dish so great. Nabisco's marketing efforts for the cookie surely played a factor in helping to further spread the joy of banana pudding to the masses. These ships brought a steady influx of bananas to the U.S., and to New Orleans in particular, thanks to its proximity to the Panama. Like our country, banana pudding was spurred by capitalism and is linked to the South—warranted or not. There’s no futzing with the ingredients or the preparation. The right way: make a simple, homemade pudding on the stove top. Add this mixture to scalded milk; cook while stirring till thick over medium heat. So, now we layer up the components. Southern Banana Pudding Boiled custard: Scald 6 cups milk with 1 stick butter in it. Retrieved from https://gourmetnutsanddriedfruit.com/a-history-of-bananas/amp, Moss, Robert. As a stickler for homemade I will always prefer the meringue and custard based recipes, but contrary to this idea, I also demand the use of Nilla Wafers. Growing up, while we’d regularly have cakes, pies, and other desserts in the house, just because, banana pudding meant gathering and celebration. The key ingredients in this pudding are flour, sugar, eggs, and milk. As for how or why, nobody seems to have a good answer—except for Moss. It certainly doesn’t have an African heritage. Spread over pudding (make sure to seal edge of dish with egg whites). Looking  at Moss’s (n.d) research of how frequently banana pudding was referenced in southern printed publications, there was only a 10.81% rate of occurrence in 1910 (Banana Pudding Becomes a Southern Icon, para. Of the three, my Auntie Barbie is the dessert queen. Much like a traditional English Trifle, the dish called for a layering of custard, sponge cake or ladyfingers, fruit and whipped topping all assembled in a glass serving dish displaying each decadent layer (Moss, n.d.). Drain excess water from bread, put in medium mixing bowl. T. 312.752.2352 Courtesy of Taunton Press, Like Its Complicated History, Banana Pudding Has Many Layers. First, it follows the tradition of making the most of what you’ve got. "Make and chill a pint of custard, the recipe instructs, then line 'a pretty dish' with alternating layers of sliced sponge cake and sliced bananas. By the 1890’s, banana pudding recipes and all their variations were in large circulation with the sponge cake recipe being the most popular (Moss, n.d.). It's simply a riff on a trifle, a traditionally English dessert with layers of custard, fruit, and sponge cake that is often topped with whipped cream. Savory puddings were made from meat. Then, depending on your container, you can either do it all again, or you can put on a layer of whipped cream, or take the egg whites you didn’t use in the pudding, and make a meringue. Observing a 70 year timeline, the association of the dessert with southern publications was insignificant in previous years compared to down the line. Banana pudding is made in a large quantity and is therefore better suited for groups of people. While theories abound, I and others believe the connection lies in the dessert's ability to feed a crowd and the region's penchant for large gatherings. By 1900, the company, which soon became known as Nabisco, started selling vanilla wafers alongside dozens of other cookies, crackers, and biscuits, but it was another two decades before the wafers found their way into banana puddings. [7], Banana pudding served in a bowl with vanilla wafers, "Southern Banana Pudding this was first made in 1961", "National Banana Pudding Festival returns for 9th year in Centerville", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Banana_pudding&oldid=987696343, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 8 November 2020, at 17:57. American businessmen bet "that American consumers could be taught to develop a taste for the exotic fruit" and thus created a market for bananas to turn a profit, hosting "decades of aggressive ad campaigns" to drive demand. Some used lady madeleines to form the layers and meringue in lieu of whipped cream. The English distinguished between “savory” and “sweet” puddings. No Southern potluck, wedding, funeral, or summer cookout is complete without a fresh-from-the-fridge pile of custard, bananas, and Nilla Wafers. Adrian Miller: Much like a nice coconut cake, this question has several layers. Bananas, like many of the people that now call this land home, arrived on our shores via ships.

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