I’ve made pudding from scratch fairly often over the last 30 years, but I’ve always made it to use in another recipe instead of as a stand alone dessert.
For the last year Katie has been making pudding for us to eat as dessert. We all love it.
There are many pudding recipes out there, including the box variety you can buy at the grocery store.
Here’s the recipe Katie uses.
Pudding
- 2 1/2 cups whole milk (seperated)
- 1/2 cup maple sugar (brown or white can also be used)
- 1 egg beaten
- 4 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Heat two cups of the milk and all the sugar in a saucepan.
While mixture is heating stir in beaten egg.
Stir together rest of milk (1/2 cup) and cornstarch in a small bowl.
When milk mixture is almost boiling add cornstarch and milk. Cook till thick.
Remove pot from heat and stir in butter and vanilla.
It’s easy to let pudding scorch so be sure to stir the pot often if not constantly.
The recipe can be doubled or tripled easily if needed.
I just can’t get over how good a bowl of pudding is for dessert. It’s very comforting too. I’m glad Katie started making it for us.
Here’s a few of the recipes I make that call for pudding.
The butterscotch and chocolate pie recipes are in mine and Jim’s cookbook Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food. You can find it here.
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Thanks for sharing Katie’s pudding recipe. I will definitely try it cause it’s gluten free!
TY for sharing Katie’s recipe with us. I love making homemade pudding.
I love true old fashion banana pudding make like Mama and Grandmaw made, the “custard” was homemade and cooked in a double pot. The so called banana pudding of today made with banana flavored pudding is a far cry from the old fashioned banana pudding. The best tasting banana pudding I have ate in a long time was bought of all places in my local Ingles Deli. I don’t know if all Ingles sell it or if it is just sold and made by one of the deli workers at this one store.
I could eat homemade pudding as dessert if I wasn’t so lazy. I think one of my favorite is tapioca. I usually buy the already cupped pudding in the stores. Only the good kind, to me anyways. Katie’s pudding looks good. I’d really like to try chocolate cream pie. I’m usually a chocoholic. If sounds delicious. Love to the family and viewers and many blessings today, tomorrow and always. J
My husband loved, loved butterscotch pudding. I’ve used it in Banana Pudding, that is my favorite even though I do like rice pudding. Matt did a great job cleaning off the garden and weed eating the sides. And how sweet of Paul to check on Matt to see if he would like a hamburger for lunch. Bringing the burger, chips, a drink and condiments. God bless you all and I’m especially praying for Granny!
Yum! We love homemade and creamy pudding in our household. There is a Christian, family owned restaurant named Randy’s in the next big town to us (30 miles away) that starts out everyone with a small serving of homemade, warm vanilla pudding. It’s the BEST! You can order a larger bowl if you want. It tastes just like home. I’m going to have to make some pudding this week. Thanks for the reminder of such a simple and delicious dessert, Tipper!
Puddings! Such a simple yet versatile dessert and also soothing to a troubled tummy. Always yummy! 🙂
that is basically the way I make pudding (ingredients and all) with one exception—I stir the cornstarch in with the sugar in the pan before adding anything else and then put all the milk and egg into that mixture then turn on the burner (more eggs make richer pudding) and stir til thick then take it off burner add vanilla and butter—it saves the step of mixing milk and cornstarch. I use this method for chocolate pie lemon pie banana pie (and of course all those same flavors just as pudding)
Me too. I’ve also learned that if I leave the temperature very low and cook it longer, it will be more like creme brûlée, a richer texture. And a little ground vanilla bean makes it pretty.
Oh so good! I would love to make some, but I am the only one who would eat it. Nobody else likes the texture. They won’t eat oatmeal or soupy potatoes either. But maybe I will make some anyway and eat on it for a while all by myself
My mom has often talked about spending all day playing in the woods with her cousins, then going back to their house with them. Their mother, my mom’s aunt. had a big wood-burning cookstove and she usually had a big pan of pudding keeping warm on the back of it. She also used to make something she called “raisin goody” that sounds like some sort of raisin pudding, or pudding with raisins in it. She was a fantastic cook; unfortunately, she also never wrote down her recipes so I don’t know how this was made.
That’s Custard!
Needs to be poured over apple crumble and eaten hot.
My mother made everything practically from scratch and puddings were included. Usually these were for pies and once in a while she gave us the pudding for dessert.
When we visited my aunts in Kentucky, usually for a week every summer, they made cream pies from scratch too. I make puddings for pies but from a box. I couldn’t tell the difference from scratch. My husband enjoys butterscotch, and I like all flavors except coconut. I don’t like coconut anything. We had rice pudding at the Ohio school I attended. In the early days everything was made from scratch, but later they began using short cuts.
We love pudding at our house also. My husband will say y’all want something sweet. (which means he wants something sweet) Then he heads to kitchen and makes pudding. Super easy, quick, and always have the ingredients on hand. Thank you for sharing the recipe for yours.
My mom used pudding to make banana cream pie. Boy, those were the days.
Sounds yummy! I’ve only made prepackaged pudding and honestly I haven’t made it in years. Thanks for the recipe!
I love pudding! It comes from my daddy. He loved pudding and jello. Momma made pudding and pies like you’ve shared. She would put the pudding in these tall, fancy, blue dessert cups she had and top it with Dream Whip. Felt like royalty eating out of those cups. Our daughters both kept one of those cups when we were going through things as she had made the same for them.
Daddy’s favorite pie in the world was butterscotch. The original recipe called it a burnt sugar pie, but we called it butterscotch and it’s like the one you shared above. Momma never made another one after Daddy died. She said it just wasn’t in her heart to do it anymore.
Praying for Granny!
when I was a child my mother made something called rice pudding, it was the best, God bless you friends have a great day
Norman, my mother would also make rice pudding when I was growing up. Now it has been many years since I have had any. My grandmother made bread pudding, hers would always be moist, nothing like the bread pudding I have seen in a few of today’s restaurants. Hope you are getting better, still praying for you.
Bread, rice and butterscotch pudding are my favorite. Thanks for sharing Katie’s recipe.
Everyone get out and enjoy this beautiful weather!
Norman, I was so glad to see your post. I hope you are feeling much better-I will keep praying for you. A friend from Mississippi