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Banana cream pie

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Banana cream pie is an American dessert pie made with sliced bananas, egg custard and whipped cream, built on a pre-baked pastry or graham cracker crust. The custard, or pastry cream, is made from milk, sugar, vanilla, eggs and butter, layered over the bananas and topped with whipped cream or creme fraiche. The dessert emerged in the late 19th century, not long after bananas became widely available in American markets in the 1880s: a 1901 recipe in the Woman's Exchange Cook Book layered sliced bananas in a baked crust under whipped cream, and by 1906 the Blue Ribbon Cook Book had refined the dish by adding a custard filling. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Course
Dessert 1
Dietary Suitability
Contains Dairy or Egg 1
Origin Period, From (Year)
from 1800 2
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Source Banana cream pie (Wikipedia)

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1. Banana cream pie (Wikipedia)
  • Ingredients and assembly section
    Typically ingredients include a pastry crust which has been blind-baked or a graham cracker crust, which is then filled with bananas and custard or pastry cream (a cooked mixture of milk, sugar, vanilla, eggs, butter) and topped with crème fraiche or whipped cream.
  • Introduction
    Banana cream pie is an American dessert pie made with bananas, egg custard and whipped cream.
  • Uses Ingredient: Whipped Cream, infobox main_ingredient field
    Bananas, egg custard, whipped cream, pastry or cookie crust
  • In Cuisine: American Cuisine, lead paragraph
    Banana cream pie is an American dessert pie made with bananas, egg custard and whipped cream.
  • In Group: North American Breads and Pastries, lead paragraph
    Banana cream pie is an American dessert pie made with bananas, egg custard and whipped cream.
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2. Banana cream pie (Wikipedia)
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The dish dates to the end of the 19th century.
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