Banana Cream Pie

Ingredients

• 1 cup scalded milk
• 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
• ½ cup sugar
• ¼ cup thin cream or top milk
• 2% tablespoons flour
• ¼ tablespoon lemon juice
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• 1 large banana

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar, flour, and salt, and add egg yolks.

2. 2

   Pour on scalded milk gradually, while stirring constantly, and cook in double boiler 15 minutes, stirring constantly until mixture thickens, and afterwards occasionally.

3. 3

   Cool and add cream, lemon juice, and banana, peeled, scraped, and cut in ¼-inch slices.

4. 4

   Chill thoroughly and turn into baked pie shell.

5. 5

   Cover with Meringue I.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Boston Cooking-School cook book (1896) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", James B. Herndon , Herndon/Vehling Collection, Sam Sloan, D. A. Lincoln, page 258. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4 teaspoon salt 1 to 34 cup sugar, white or brown W tablespoon butter 14 teaspoon grated nutmeg or 2 teaspoons lemon juice cinnamon Few gratings lemon rind Line pie plate with pastry. Pare, core, and cut apples in eighths, put row around plate 14 inch from edge, and work towards center until plate is covered; then pileon remainder. Mix sugar, nutmeg, salt, lemon juice, and grated rind, and sprinkle over apples. Dot over with butter. Wet edges of undercrust, cover with upper crust, and press edges together. Bake.* Evaporated apples, soaked over- night in cold water, may be used in place of fresh fruit. — Deep Apple Pie. Bake in deep baking dish, omitting bottom crust. Serve plain or with cream, whipped cream (plain or frozen), or ice cream. Cardinal Apple Pie. Bake filling (with addition of 1 cup hot water) in small earthen dish, closely covered, in very slow oven (250° F.) for 3 hours. Cool and bake as above. APRICOT PIE 2 cups apricots, mashed Sugar to taste If dried apricots are used, soak 12 hours. Bake* with bottom crust and strips of pastry, lattice fashion over the top. BANANA CREAM PIE Fill baked pie shell with sliced bananas.’ Pour over cold Soft Custard (p. 529). Chill. Cover with whipped cream or sprinkle with coconut. * Pastry, p- 421. To Bake Pies, p. 625. Meringues, p. 625 PIES 627 BANANA PIE 1 cup scalded milk : 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten ig cup sugar \4 cup thin cream or top milk 2% tablespoons flour 34 tablespoon lemon juice Yg teaspoon salt 1 large banana

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