Vanilla Pudding

1/3 cup sugar
4 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 cups milk
4 slightly-beaten egg yolks or 2 well-beaten eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

In a saucepan, blend sugar, cornstarch and salt, and then add milk.  Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened and bubbly.  Cook and stir 2 minutes more.  Remove from heat.

Stir a small amount of the hot milk mixture into the beaten egg, and the return the egg mixture to the hot milk mixture.  Cook and stir 2 minutes more.  Remove from heat.  Add the vanilla and stir.  Pour into dishes and chill.

For chocolate pudding, follow the vanilla directions, increasing the sugar to about 1/2 cup.  Add 2 1-ounce squares of unsweetened chocolate with the milk.


from Mom