I guess it’s the season for recipes!

Ready for a simple pudding that you can use for different flavors of cream pie or just for eating as pudding?

{This is my husband’s mom’s recipe. She has turned pie making into an art form.}

I have turned this recipe into a no-sugar-headache recipe for our family. There really is no need to use a box of artificial flavorings and coloring’s and a lot of sugar when making pudding from scratch is so easy.

It’s so simple and so versatile! I hope it might come in handy for you to use over the holidays!

Pie Filling/Pudding
In a saucepan put:
2 cups of milk, to warm while stirring frequently. Meanwhile, in another dish, combine:
2 eggs
2 Tablespoons cornstarch OR 2 1/2 Tablespoons arrowroot powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup honey
Stir until mixed. Then add to the warm milk while stirring with a whisk.
Continue to heat and stir until the mixture starts to thicken, between 5-10 minutes.
When it becomes thick, take off the heat and stir in:
2 tsps vanilla
Then chill before adding to a pie shell.

If you want to make this into chocolate pudding, just add 2 Tablespoons cocoa to the egg mixture. To change up the flavor, substitute rum flavoring or butterscotch for the vanilla.

You can put this pudding in a pie shell with sliced bananas (underneath and on top of the pudding) and then garnish it with real whipped cream. Or, you can layer the pudding in glasses with whipped cream and cut up fruit. Or layer it with cottage cheese and fruit. If you make the pudding chocolate, you could add unsweetened coconut (now available at WalMart!) or strawberries and whipped cream or graham crackers or almonds or use it to fill a graham cracker crust, or whatever you can imagine!

You can use it on top of waffles or pancakes or cake or cupcakes or as a fruit dip or to fill individual eclair shells.

For years, while our kids were little, we had a few small glass dessert dishes that I would fill with this pudding for a special dessert.

I also use this pudding on top of an eclair crust for “Eclair Dessert” (another one of my mother-in-law’s famous treats!) I’ll have to look and see if I have already posted that one!?

I hope you’ve had a good holiday so far. It can be quite a stressful time, so please give yourself some time out, even if it’s short, to regroup and recharge.

Be well my friend,

Jacque

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