Banana Cream Pie

Name: Banana Cream Pie
Yield: makes one 9-inch pie
Ingredients: All-purpose flour, for dusting; 1/2 recipe Pâte Brisée (page 322); 1/2 cup granulated sugar; 1/4 cup cornstarch; 1/4 teaspoon coarse salt; 2 cups milk; 4 large egg yolks; 2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces; 3 ripe bananas, halved lengthwise, thinly sliced crosswise; 1 1/2 cups heavy cream; 2 teaspoons confectioners’ sugar; 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; Chocolate curls, for garnish (page 343)

January 24, 2012

In the heyday of roadside restaurants, this tempting dessert was typically placed in the rotating glass case near the entrance, the better to entice hungry passersby. It was a good strategy: The pie’s velvety banana custard and billowy whipped-cream topping were—and remain—impossible to resist.

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