Summer Reads Recipe: Luanne’s Sweet Corn Pudding from Colton Gentry’s Third Act
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Makes 12 Servings
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs
- 1 (5-ounce) can evaporated milk
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 (20-ounce) packages frozen cream-style corn, thawed
Steps
- Preheat oven to 375°. Lightly grease a 13×9-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. In a large bowl, beat eggs. Add evaporated milk, butter, sugar, salt, pepper, and vanilla, stirring to combine. Stir in flour and corn.
- Pour mixture into prepared baking dish. Bake for 45 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Enjoy!
From an award-winning author, a down on his luck country musician moves back home and rekindles a relationship with his high school sweetheart in this moving novel that’s “not to be missed” (Emily Henry, author of Beach Read and Book Lovers).
Colton Gentry’s music career is riding high, but he’s hurting after his best friend is killed by a mass shooter at a country music festival. One night, with Jim Beam flowing through his veins, Colton stands before a sold-out crowd of country music fans and offers his unfiltered opinion on guns. Immediately, his career and marriage implode.
Colton retreats to his rural Kentucky hometown to hide out,resigned to being a has-been. A chance encounter gives him a second shot at life: a job working at a restaurant with Luann, his first love. Colton Gentry’s Third Act is a reminder that there are next acts in life, no matter how unlikely they may seem.