At our house bananas just languish in the fruit bowl, looking unloved and neglected. We like bananas, we know they are all kinds of good for us but yet we buy, they brown, they get tossed. We start over again.
Every now and then I like to break the cycle by making banana bread (never have found that perfect banana bread recipe though, you know?) or muffins or seeing if the goats will eat them (yes they will, although they are somewhat suspicious of them).
Yesterday I decided to try my hand at Banana Cream Pie. I did my research on-line and then, combining suggestions and tips from various places, came up with what I thought was a fairly simple custard filling to be poured over a pre-baked crust lined with sliced bananas. It looked beautiful. Didn’t it? It looks like a banana cream pie.
Except it never set up. More like banana cream soup.
Poor sad bananas. I just need to stop buying them. Okay moving on.
I love that cherry tablecloth. I bought it about five or six years ago from The Company Store (they don’t have it anymore, I checked) and it is the happiest tablecloth I own. There is just something so inviting about it – like you may not be served the most gourmet meal on it but you will get something tasty, satisfying and made with love.
Maybe not a piece of banana cream pie, though.
I send my condolences about your banana cream pie. I hate it when that happens. It looks really yummy !!!! Clarice
I’d eat a bowl! Especially on that tablecloth!
Oh dear. There is probably some chemical reaction explanation of why it didn’t set up. What a disappointment. It looks pretty though. Maybe you could preserve it somehow in plastic.
But how did you get the first photo? It looks set up, did you have to bake it? Did you buy one from the store? What did you do?
But how did you get the first photo? It looks set up, did you have to bake it? Did you buy one from the store? What did you do?
I am SO LOVIN’ that cherry tablecloth!
I used to make banana cream pie from scratch, I used a recipe from a 1950’s cook book. I could send it to you if you’d like. I think your custard either wasn’t cooked enough, or there wasn’t enough corn starch.
I just knew there was another family out there that did the same thing with the poor bananas. I feel so guilty when I have to throw them out. But what do you do? I have a real good recipe for a banana bundt cake that I didn’t even know I had until my step mom told me that it was in a cook book she and my dad gave me. While she was here during Thanksgiving, she couldn’t stand the fact that these poor bananas where doing their thing in the basket, and made that coffee cake recipe. It is the first one that I really loved. I’m thinking about making it soon as I have some bananas in peril as we speak!!!
This is the recipe I have used for about 15 years. It is from a 1954 Betty Crocker cookbook. Custard should be cooked over a low heat and very gradually brought to the boil or else it will scald. You can experiment with raising the temperature – just keep on stirring!!
– Baked 8″ pie shell
– 1/2 cup sugar
– 1/3 tsp. salt
– 2 Tbsp. cornstarch
– 3/4 Tbsp. flour
– 2-1/4 cups rich milk
– 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
– 3/4 Tbsp. butter
– 1 tsp. vanilla
– bananas
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Mix sugar, salt, cornstarch, flour in saucepan. Slowly stir in milk. Boil 1 minute over medium heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Stir half of mixture into egg yolks, then blend into hot mixture in saucepan. Boil 1 more minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat Blend in butter, vanilla. Cool. Line baked pie shell with sliced bananas. Pour custard into baked pie shell. Chilled about 2 hours. Just before serving, top with whipped cream (I use cool whip).
My brother-in-law is a chef but he LOVES my banana cream pie and said he couldn’t do it any better.
In our house all of the bananas get eaten, except for two of them. Never at least three so there is enough to make some bread with. No, just two. You can wrap them in saran wrap and freeze them. That’s what I must do until the next bunch arrives and two more get left over 😉
Love the cherry tablecloth!
In our house all of the bananas get eaten, except for two of them. Never at least three so there is enough to make some bread with. No, just two. You can wrap them in saran wrap and freeze them. That’s what I must do until the next bunch arrives and two more get left over 😉
Love the cherry tablecloth!
If you like banana pudding, google “Not Yo’ Mama’s Banana Pudding”. My daughter makes it and now my son and husband want it instead of birthday cake on their birthdays. It’s that good!
Yes! We have the banana problems!! My mom has that same cherry pie plate!
Oh – how sad! I hate it when I put in so much work on any project and it just does not turn out! Did you ever figure out why it did not set up?