Grab a whisk, a bowl, and some whipping cream, and whip to stiff peaks. Your respect for those old ladies from days gone by will go way up. Those ladies were bad to the bone.
What is the filling? Something like a custard?
Whatever it is, it looks mighty tasty.
What is the filling? Something like a custard?
Whatever it is, it looks mighty tasty.
Nice. My mother made me homemade old school banana pudding when I came to visit. You know the one on the side of the vanilla wafer box...except with fresh ingredients.
Mom made a kaiserschmarrn when I was home for Thanksgiving.
Was struggling for how to describe it, wikipedia calls it a "shredded pancake" but its more airy and souffle-like than a pancake. It can be served savory as an entree or sweet as a dessert. Mom served it as the latter with apricot compote. Not hers in the pic but similar
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Thanks, and couldn't agree more. Mom is from Austria so lots of good baking. If you don't already have a recipe for stollen I can get you her's.Looks great. I am seriously contemplating trying to make a stollen for christmas. Germanic baked goods are in my opinion some of the best in the world. The French claim to be the best, but for my money, the German bakers trounce them.
Thanks, and couldn't agree more. Mom is from Austria so lots of good baking. If you don't already have a recipe for stollen I can get you her's.
Thanks, and couldn't agree more. Mom is from Austria so lots of good baking. If you don't already have a recipe for stollen I can get you her's.
Not sure if it is an appalachian thing or not, but try an old school banana pudding with brown sugar instead of white sugar sometime, and with browned meringue on top instead of whipped cream.
When I was growing up one of the favorites was something my mother called refrigerator pie. It consisted of Graham crackers with vanilla and chocolate pudding in separate rows. My mother would have four total rows and then top it off with whipped cream. It would set in the refrigerator for a few hours and then she would serve it.
The banana pudding I grew up with always had a browned meringue on top. I was a little thrown when I first saw and had banana pudding with whipped cream on top. They are two different animals, aren't they--just like cream and meringue pies.
I'm pretty sure it always was made with white sugar, but brown sugar sounds terrific!
She would take Graham crackers end to end in a rectangular baking dish. On top of the first layer she would put vanilla pudding. Another layer of crackers with chocolate pudding on that layer. Two more layers and the in the refrigerator. The crackers would absorb the liquid and would soften a bit so it was easy to cut.I'm having a hard time visualizing how your mom did this - did she separate the rows of pudding with graham crackers standing on end? This one sounds deceptively difficult to me. I can't picture how she put the dessert together without it blending into a mess. Sounds like a cool dessert.