Banana Cream Pie
Ingredients
Pastry Cream
½
gallon
Milk
1
lb
sugar
3 ½
ounce
cornstarch
½
teaspoon
salt
8
ounces
butter
1
tablespoon
vanilla bean paste
Whipped Cream
1
qt
whipping cream
1
tablespoon
vanilla bean paste
Instructions
Pastry Cream
Boil milk with vanilla bean (or paste). In a separate bowl, mix sugar and cornstarch to avoid lumps.
Add eggs and salt to sugar mixture until combined. Once the milk has come to a boil, temper the milk into the egg sugar mixture.
Then return all liquid to heat and whisk continuously, be sure not to scorch the bottom!
The mixture will start to thicken. When the first bubble hits the top, strain the mixture into a container.
Let cool slightly then add the cold butter and thoroughly mix.
Put in fridge until it gets cold. This recipe can be made a day ahead.
Assembly
A little whipped cream on the bottom
Bananas
pastry cream mixture
Nilla wafers
Whipped cream
Crumbled nilla wafers