[Food] Banoffee Pie...

Cotton Socks

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• Tuesday at 9:50 PM

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I have no wish to turn this place into Mumsnet or become @crodonilson, but this is a Sussex thing.
I was (not) forced into watching Bake Off tonight & they had to make a Banoffee Pie, I was most shocked that they had to make pastry as if it were an actual 'pie'. The only thing I've ever been able to make well is a Banoffee Pie but have always made a biscuit base & have always known Banoffee Pie to have a biscuit base. I just want to know if I've been doing it wrong all these years or whether I should be putting a complaint into C4?
Yes this has bothered me so much that I've felt the need to ask & create a pole (they'll give their opinion later).

 

jcdenton08

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• Tuesday at 9:53 PM

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Biscuit base. It is my all-time favourite dessert and I’m not a dessert guy, but I’ll always have Banoffee Pie if it’s available.

I’ve never, ever seen it served in pastry and it sounds weird.

Sounds like they didn’t have a clue and I’m quite upset hearing about this

 

Hugo Rune

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Pastry? WTF! The hungry monk will be turning in his grave!

 

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• Tuesday at 9:55 PM

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Original is pastry base.

Banoffi Pie: The Original Hungry Monk Recipe

As the story goes, Ian Dowding and Nigel Mackenzie are credited with the 'invention' of Banoffi Pie , which they first served at thei...

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Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo

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The original recipe calls for a pasty base. One of the guys from The Hungry Monk who invented it says his biggest pet peeve is a biscuit base.

 

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• Tuesday at 9:56 PM

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Buttery
Biscuit
Base

 

studio150

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• Tuesday at 9:56 PM

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I detest banoffee pie as I hate bananas, but my wife who loves it, says it should be a biscuit base not a pastry one.

 

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• Tuesday at 9:59 PM

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Pastry or biscuit base is good. Not exactly the most challenging of recipes though especially now you can buy tins of caramelised condensed milk rather than having to boil it a tin for a couple of hours!!

 

Hugo Rune

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studio150 said:

I detest banoffee pie as I hate bananas, but my wife who loves it, says it should be a biscuit base not a pastry one.

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Your wife and I are wrong.

Banoffi Pie, the original recipe – Ian Dowding

Biscuit base is obviously a lot nicer but the original is pastry it would seem.

 

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Hollywood’s a scouser, he’s uncouth by default

 

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• Tuesday at 10:01 PM

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I think we’ve been conditioned to think it’s a biscuit base. But I fear it should be pastry.

 

Hugo Rune

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• Tuesday at 10:02 PM

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drew said:

Pastry or biscuit base is good. Not exactly the most challenging of recipes though especially now you can buy tins of caramelised condensed milk rather than having to boil it a tin for a couple of hours!!

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Pre-caramelised condensed milk has the wrong consistency. Too sloppy. I can always tell a pie that has had the shortcut applied to it. It needs a more gelatinous consistency which comes from boiling your own or boiling the nestle pre-cooked until it holds like jelly.

 

jcdenton08

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• Tuesday at 10:03 PM

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Hovegull said:

I think we’ve been conditioned to think it’s a biscuit base. But I fear it should be pastry.

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Not. On. My. Watch.

If they come and try and force pastry onto the banoffee pie I know and love, I’ll be up on that barricade fighting like Jean Valjean

 

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Loving this! Could anything be more NSC than discussing the merits of Banoffee pie? I don’t even know what it is but am in bits laughing about this thread. Yes I have had too much too drink!

 

Mackenzie

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• Tuesday at 10:07 PM

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We make it using a pastry base, always have, but it doesn't matter. Whatever you prefer really.

 

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• Tuesday at 10:09 PM

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jcdenton08 said:

Not. On. My. Watch.

If they come and try and force pastry onto the banoffee pie I know and love, I’ll be up on that barricade fighting like Jean Valjean

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First they came for trifle
And I did not speak out
Because I do not like trifle
Then they came for apple pie
And I did not speak out
Because I do not like apple pie
Then they came for tiramisu
And I did not speak out
Because I do not like fancy foreign muck
Then they came for spotted dick
And I did not speak out
Because I do not watch porn. Honest. Check my browser history.
Then they came for the biscuit base of banoffee pie
And there was no one left
Because Bake Off used pastry. The heathens.

 

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A1X

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• Tuesday at 10:18 PM

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I had it in my head that it was a pastry base.... but I haven't made one for YEARS

Whatever you prefer is the answer I guess. Personally I think biscuits give off a mediocre cheesecake vibe, but live and let live etc

 

jcdenton08

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• Tuesday at 10:19 PM

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Yes Chef said:

I had it in my head that it was a pastry base.... but I haven't made one for YEARS

Whatever you prefer is the answer I guess. Personally I think biscuits give off a mediocre cheesecake vibe, but live and let live etc

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Fight you!