June, here is a recipe mentioning mashed bananas, but no pudding mix. Maybe your aunt adds a pudding mix when she includes pineapple to help hold the mixture.

This doesn't include vanilla wafers or graham crackers. Those, pieces of pound cake, sugar cookies, or banana bread could be addded in to serve as a trifle.

I do hope that someone can cajole your aunt into sharing her special dessert.

BANANA PUDDING FROM SCRATCH

4 tbsp corn starch
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 cup evaporated milk
2 large eggs, beaten
3 medium-sized ripe bananas

In a 2 quart or larger sauce pan blend corn starch amd sugar. Add 1 cup of room temperature water and dissolve starch-sugar mixture. Place pan on medium heat and bring to a gentle boil. During heating process stir to prevent sticking to bottom of pan and scorching.

As mixture starts to thicken, add the milk, mix thoroughly and continue to heat.

When mixture in pan starts to thicken again, add eggs and mix thoroughly.

Mash one of the bananas and slice the others. Stir the mashed banana into the mixture. Continue heating until desired stiffens is reached.

Stir in all but 1/2 cup of sliced bananas and use these to garnish the top.

Makes 4 servings.