Blair Van Sant, our former pastry chef and kitchen manager extraordinaire, was also our resident pudding expert. He has since returned to the South, but he remains a close friend and an avid pudding freak. In the service of this book, I asked him to dig up his oldest pudding inspiration. Blair got back to me in twenty-six seconds flat. Aunt Sabra King’s Pudding Bar is a messy Sunday supper–style dessert that epitomizes the beauty of Southern baking: not too
