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Banana Peach Pudding

20150925_172339(Very loosely) adapted from this persimmon pudding recipe, mainly because I don’t like persimmon but I like pudding. The texture of this pudding is reminiscent of a Yorkshire pudding, almost cakelike. I like it. This version of the recipe is slightly sweet, so you can increase the sugar if you want.

  • 2 cups bananas and drained canned peaches, mashed
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 1/2 cups milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • spices to taste – I used allspice and clove, which worked well

This is another one of those recipes that consists of mixing all the ingredients together and putting it in the oven.

Preheat oven to 325 ºF. Grease a 9″ by 13″ baking pan.

Mix the fruit, eggs, milk, and vanilla in one bowl. Mix the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and spices in another bowl. Mix the contents of the two bowls, put in the baking pan, put in the oven. Bake until just set, about 1 hour.

Lemon Cake Pudding

I felt like making pudding, so I dug around James Beard until I found a recipe that caught my eye. This one’s simple (mix all the ingredients together and put them in the oven) and delicious.

You will need:

  • 3 egg yolks
  • 3 tablespoons flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon melted butter
  • 6 tablespoons lemon juice*
  • 1 tablespoon grated lemon rind*
  • 1 1/4 cups milk
  • 3 egg whites

* I used lime juice. It worked great.

Preheat oven to 350 ºF. Stir together all the ingredients except the egg whites. Beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks (more on that below), then mix the egg whites into the rest of the ingredients. Pour into a 9″ baking pan and bake until it’s set, about 35 minutes.

That’s it. It’s an easy pudding.

Zesting the limes.

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This is what egg whites beaten to stiff peaks look like. The protein in the egg whites traps tiny air bubbles, which give the pudding its fluffiness. Isn’t science cool?

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The finished product. It isn’t a very imposing-looking pudding, but it’s deliciously tart. You can get away with adding extra lime juice and cutting down the sugar if you like that sort of thing (I do!)