Who doesn’t love vanilla pudding? Especially on these hot summer days when a gal just doesn’t want to turn on the oven? I gotta admit I’ve been flipping through all my “over-the-stove” recipes cause I just don’t want to turn on that oven.
I even did a stew today instead of a roast. If it’s hot in your home state and you love an easy, sweet treat, well, you’ve come to the right blog today.
By the way, this picture comes courtesy of the site: theseoldcookbooks.com — I love the old cookbooks, too. But, let me share my mother-in-law’s made from scratch vanilla pudding recipe.
Vanilla Pudding without cornstarch
1/3 Cup Sugar, mixed well with:
1/4 Cup Flour
Mix in 1 egg and
1/2 Cup Milk (I mix 1/4 cup milk and 1/4 cup cream because cream to me is a food of joy.
Stir until smooth.
Then add 1 1/2 Cup More Milk (or milk and cream)
Add two tablespoons butter.
Stir while cooking over medium heat until thickened. This takes about 5-6 minutes.
After cooking add 1 teaspoon vanilla.
This is the recipe to use if you are making banana pudding for a pie — or if you just want some homemade banana pudding. If you do, add two bananas.
That’s it. Easy and it didn’t really heat up the kitchen.
Now, let me do an add on, just in case you like to make your own spices.
My sister had a son who was allergic to All spice and so here is a substitution that might work since it imparts a similar kind of taste.
ALL SPICE:
1 Teaspoon Ceylon Cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon Cloves
1/2 Teaspoon Nutmeg
Mix together. Enjoy!
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Do you have a favorite pudding recipe? If so, come on in and tell me about it.
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That recipe sounds easy and delicious. I haven’t made homemade pudding in ages.
Hi Denise! I think you’ll like it and it is very easy to make. Hope you’ll try it!
I have never made homemade pudding. This sounds very easy.
Oh, you should try it. It’s my husband’s favorite and so easy to make, you might make it over and over. Hope you’ll enjoy!
Now that recipe has my mouth watering for smooth creamy goodness…
Oh, do try it. It really hits the spot — especially in this hot weather! : )
That recipe does sound good (except for the flour). I do not have a favorite except to have lots of whipped cream.
Hi Debby! Ah, a dessert of my heart — whipped cream. You might be able to us oat flour or another flour that doesn’t have gluten. But, I’d be happy with just the whipped cream with a little sugar. : )
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Hi David! Oh, my gosh. Thank you so much for coming to the blog today. Did you? You loved the book? What lovely words these are! Thank you for letting me know. Hope your day is filled with joy!
My mom made homemade Chocolate pudding every week. We lived on a farm so had plenty of milk. Needless to say, our family was quite fond of chocolate. I haven’t made any that I can recall. I would grab a box on the grocery shelf, coconut cream, pistachio, butterscotch ( my most favorite).
Hi Judy,
Although I didn’t grow up on a farm, I grew up in a farming community and so having pudding was very common. We mostly had vanilla. As I’ve grown up, I’ve realized the sometimes (not always), but sometimes it’s almost as easy to make something from scratch as it is from a box. But, not everything. Yum! Chocolate! I’m with you on that.
I have never made pudding from scratch… maybe I will try it!
Yes, I think you should try. I think you might like it. Having grown up in a farming community, we made most things from scratch and so I didn’t really develop the taste for the chemicals they put into foods nowadays. Hope you try it and like it.
I do have a favorite vanilla pudding recipe that I use for banana pudding and banana cream pie. It was my mother’s recipe and I have passed it down to my children.
Hi! Aren’t they the best? I have several recipes passed down to me from my sister who got them from our mother and they are usually our family’s favorites. One of those recipes is cobbler, which I fix often. Some of the others, though they are not so “easy” is Italian Beef — everyone I know who has had this recipe loves it. It comes again from my sister who received it from her sorority sister who lived in Chicago, where the recipe originated from. I so love these recipes passed down. I admire you for doing so.
The pudding sounds delicious . I’ll have to try it. My mom used to make something similar when she would make banana pudding from scratch.
Love this post. It does bring back memories, making something from scratch — funny how good thoughts come to mind when baking or cooking. It’s a connection to the past that I hope never goes away. Often, I think cooking and baking every day is an act of love and I think it is an element in what we cook or bake. What do you think?
Homemade banana pudding is the only way to go! I get compliments on my banana pudding and when ask “Why is it so good!”, I always tell them it is made from scratch not a box. I will hardly ever use box to make anything. I’m a Southern gal and homemade from scratch was the only way I was taught to cook. The same goes for my German Chocolate Cake. I had to make it for my daddy every birthday after Mama died. The last one I made for him was his 100th! Still miss making them for him!
Hi Billye! I salute you! Feel the same about boxed anything, actually. Lots of kitchen work, it’s true, but it’s an effort of love. I love that you made the cakes from scratch. Must admit, I do the same for the grands and my own kids and my husband. But, like I said, if it’s in a box, I don’t eat it. Make it myself usually. Although I’m from Illinois, I was from downstate and it was very southern and my mom was southern and so my favorite meal to this very day (and I still make it for my own kids and the grands) is chicken and noodles or chicken and dumplings. Add mashed potatoes and it’s quite yummy. NIce to see you here on the blog.
Hi Kay,
Thank you! And, right back at you!. My grandma made Chicken and dumplings and I loved them. She didn’t have a recipe but I wish she had written it down. I have tried them at numerous place and just not as good. My husband doesn’t like them so I don’t try to make them. But, I really miss having them.
I make them from an old recipe from the Fanny Farmer Cookbook — it’s an old one you can probably get on line at Amazon. It’s the recipe that DOES NOT use eggs. If one uses eggs in it, the flour doesn’t mix with the broth and it comes out differently. I’ll post it here: After you make the broth, combine 2 cups flour and 1 teaspoon baking powder (the book says three but I like using only 1); 1 teasp. salt, 4 tblsp.butter and 3/4 – 1 cup milk. Drop them in the boiling broth the the tblsp., close the lid tight and let me simmer in the broth for 20 minutes WITHOUT lifting the lid. My whole family loves this recipe.
Thank you for sharing these recipes. They sound easy and delicious. My grandmother made the best rice pudding, but of course I don’t have the recipe. Surprisingly no one else in the family seems to have it either. I have been buying cookbooks from the 1930’s to 1940’s looking for one that sounds like her’s. I now have a dozen old cookbooks but I think I have finally found one that will work. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to try it soon. Her’s had raisins in it and a nice custard finish. Once I clear all these projects I have I hope to have time to cook.
Hi Patricia, My goodness but this sounds wonderful. If you find the recipe, would you share it with me — I seldom use rice anymore because it tends to be contaminated. But, I’ll find some goo uncontaminated rice and try to make it, too.
I’m spoiled – the chocolate pudding recipe in “Joy of Cooking” is quicker and easier than this one for vanilla pudding. As a chocoholic, I think I’ll stick with the one I know!
Hi Mary! I have that cookbook. Could you share what recipe this is? I might drag out the cookbook and start making them one by one. My husband LOVES chocolate and so an easy recipe for chocolate puidding will no doubt be a hit.
I have made both vanilla and chocolate pudding from scratch. I like rice pudding too.
Hi Jane! So nice to see you here on the blog. The recipe I gave here I often make into chocolate pudding. I don’t tend to use rice much, but this is the 2nd time someone has mentioned rice pudding and I think I’m going to have to try it. In the summer time, nothing seems to hit the spot quite like pudding.