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[Food] Banoffee Pie...

Should Banoffee Pie have a biscuit base or pastry?

  • Biscuit Base

    Votes: 115 87.8%

  • Pastry

    Votes: 16 12.2%
  • Total voters
    131


Cotton Socks

Cotton Socks

Skint Supporter
Feb 20, 2017
2,156
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

jcdenton08

Offended Liver Sausage
NSC Patron
Oct 17, 2008
14,500
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 :angry:
 














drew

drew

Drew
NSC Patron
Oct 3, 2006
23,608
Burgess Hill
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!!
 






A1X

A1X

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Sep 1, 2017
20,531
Deepest, darkest Sussex
Hollywood’s a scouser, he’s uncouth by default
 






Hugo Rune

Hugo Rune

Well-known member
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Feb 23, 2012
23,668
Brighton
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.
 




Javeaseagull

Javeaseagull

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Feb 22, 2014
2,807
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

Mackenzie

Old Brightonian
Nov 7, 2003
34,008
East Wales
We make it using a pastry base, always have, but it doesn't matter. Whatever you prefer really.
 


Bozza

Bozza

You can change this
Helpful Moderator
Jul 4, 2003
57,283
Back in Sussex
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.
 


Peacehaven Wild Kids

Peacehaven Wild Kids

Well-known member
Jan 16, 2022
3,389
The Avenue then Maloncho
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Y

Yes Chef

Well-known member
Apr 11, 2016
1,908
In the kitchen
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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