Makes: 4 servings
Prep Time: 4 hours - Overnight
Cook Time: 40 minutes

Carolina 'Nana Pudding

Ingredients:

7 large bananas (firm with a touch of green)
6 fresh eggs
4 cups whole milk
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
Dash of nutmeg
1 1/2 tsp. Grand Marinier
1 box vanilla wafers
1 pint whipping cream
1 tbsp. sugar

9x12 Pyrex dish

Directions:

1. In the top of a double boiler, beat the eggs lightly.
2. B lend in 1/4 cup of the sugar, the salt, and all of the milk.
3. In a large saucepan, cook over boiling water, stirring until the mixture coats a metal spoon.
4. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the liquor.
5. Set the bowl aside to cool.
6. In the bottom of a Pyrex dish, arrange the vanilla wafers in an overlapping pattern.
7. Top this layer with 1/4-inch banana slices.
8. Cover the bananas with a layer of custard, repeat cookies and bananas, repeat and then repeat again with the custard as the final (top) layer.
9. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 4 hours, but overnight is better.
10. Just before serving, whip the cream with the remaining 1 tablespoon of sugar and spread the whipped cream over the pudding.