Old-Fashioned Vanilla Pudding

Awesome custard! I only wish it made more! I used mexican vanilla...yummy. It only makes about a cup of pudding but it's very smooth and tasty. So much better than the box! And just the right amount of sweetness.

Yummy! This vanilla pudding is soo tasty. It is much better than the boxed mix. Soo melt-in-your-mouth good. I have a few suggestions though.. You MUST add strawberries or some sort of fruit (preferably berries)! It's absolutely a match made in heaven. Yum! Also, this recipe makes about 1/4 cup so you should definetely double or heck, triple it. Delicious! Thanks.

i've never made homemade pudding before so i thought i would try this recipe. it was soooooooo easy to make and soooooooo yummy! why has it taken me this long to try it. i used splenda in place of sugar and all i had was fat-free milk, but it still turned out awesome. i would imagine it would even be richer with whole milk. thanks for the great recipe!

Excellent! I didn't have any cornstarch on hand, so I used 2 tablespoons of flour instead. It still turned out great! I filled pre-baked tart shells with it and added fresh strawberries on top. Yum!

Excellent basic vanilla pudding. Not too sweet, and the egg yolk adds great depth of flavor. (By the way, using just the yolk reduces the risk of curdling.) A nice way to add extra flavor is to cook the milk with a cinnamon stick, which gives the flavor without turning the pudding brown.

This is wonderful!! The only change I made was a dinner party for 12. I put a cloud of "on Top" (no melt whipped cream from Gordon Foods)in stemmed glasses, a small amount of crushed cinnamon graham crackers on that, spooned the pudding in and a dollop of whip cream on top. Put a strawberry on the rim of each glass. My guests were in awe!!!! Thank you so much!!

I love making my own puddings. When I saw this recipe I had to try it. It was wonderful! My family and our guests loved it! It was very creamy, actually almost custardy, and oh so good! One little additional ingredient that I added in seemed to make it even better - cinnamon. I mixed a very small amount into the pudding and then I topped the pudding with a sprinkle of it. It looked wonderful and tasted even better.

Was looking for a quick and easy substitute for boxed vanilla pudding, and found it. I added a generous dash of cinnamon, mixed dry ingredients first, and stirred constantly until it just reached a boil. (Is quite thick at this stage, just like the boxed stuff.) I also added egg yolks, to enrich not thicken, as the mixture bacame 'hot'. I’d have added them sooner, but I didn’t have a chance. As soon as it reached 'boiling' I pulled from heat and added vanilla and let it cool. I like 'skin', so I don't put plastic wrap on surface of pudding. Some say with these types of puddings that they are 'creamier' if you do the plastic wrap or stirring-as-they-cool thing, and are 'firmer' if you just let 'em cool until thoroughly 'set', but I've found if they are a bit too firm or 'lumpy', just stirring them before serving smoothes things out quite a bit. Very good-better than boxed, as you'd expect. Boyfriend liked it and he says he doesn't often like pudding (smile).

This was pudding was GREAT! Once I tasted that it was good I modified the recipe to make a perfect banana pudding. To make the banana pudding: I tripled the recipe, used evaporated milk, added 2 chopped bananas and 15 crumbled Vanilla Wafers. Very yummy!

I doubled this recipe, next time I don't think I'll double the egg yolk though. I may try coconut extract instead of the vanilla for a different flavor.