Aunt Jenny's 12 Pies Husbands Like Best/1952

Dreamy Banana Cream Pie

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INGREDIENTS:



1 MAKE: a baked Water-Whip pie shell.
2 SCALD: 2 cups milk in topof double boiler.
3 MIX: 3 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons cornstarch, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt. Add gradually to scaled milk and cook until thick and smooth, then cook 15 minutes longer, stirring constantly.
4 BEAT: 3 egg yolks slightly. Stir a small amount of hot mixture into yolks, return to double boiler, and cook a few minutes longer.
5 ADD: 1 tablespoon butter or margarine, 1 teaspoon vanilla and blend. Cool.
6 SLICE: 3 or 4 bananas and arrange in baked pie shell; cover at once with cooled filling. At serving time, whipe 1/2 cup heavy cream. Drop by teaspoonfuls on filling around rim of pie, pilling remaining cream in center.
7 DECORATE: by inserting 2 banana slices, butterfly fashion, into cream at tip of each serving.

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