Grandma's Banana Cream Pie
Recipe: #29921
July 07, 2018
Categories: Desserts, Banana, Christmas, Easter, Fathers Day Mothers Day, Thanksgiving, Vegetarian, Pies, Kosher Dairy, more
"My grandmother was a wonderful cook, made great pies, and this was my favorite. She always used a homemade pie crust and served it with a dollop of Cool Whip or whipped cream on top. She didn't give me any idea how many bananas to use...so I guessed. She would also use the same custard, making a half batch, for the filling in cream puffs (minus the bananas). I originally posted this recipe on another website which went downhill, and it has a 5 star rating there."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (461.9 g)
- Calories 875.5
- Total Fat - 51.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 19.7 g
- Cholesterol - 1416.5 mg
- Sodium - 487.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 75.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4.3 g
- Sugars - 41.9 g
- Protein - 28.6 g
- Calcium - 320.7 mg
- Iron - 4.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 13.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.4 mg
Step by Step Method
TO MAKE THE FILLING
Step 1
Mix flour and cornstarch with 1/3 cup cold milk to make a thin smooth paste, and set aside.
Step 2
In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks, then add sugar and salt and beat well.
Step 3
In a medium saucepan, scald remaining milk, stirring constantly.
Step 4
While you continue stirring the milk in the pot, add a small amount of the scalded milk to the flour paste and a small amount to the egg/sugar mixture. Pour both mixtures into the pot with the scalded milk and stir well.
Step 5
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until thickened. Remove from heat. Add butter and vanilla, and stir well.
TO ASSEMBLE THE PIE
Step 6
Pour a layer of custard filling in in the pie shell.
Step 7
Place a layer of sliced bananas on top of the filling, then repeat with custard & bananas, and ending with a final top layer of custard.
Step 8
Refrigerate once the custard has cooled.
Step 9
Serve with whipped cream or Cool Whip.
Tips
- Pie crust