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[Food] Banoffee Pie...
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BrightonCottager
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A pasty base?
That's radical, dude. Cornish or Cheese and Onion?
3.5hrs for the correct firm tofu like consistency and dark colour. If the pan runs dry, the tins explode (I've seen it). You say more than FFS when that happens!
Cotton Socks
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It's a test of your willpower. I looked at the thread & decided to watch Bake Off. The people participating in that thread are going to be far more health conscious than me by the end of Nov, even if the 'scales' say they've only lost half a pound. If someone has been exercising then muscle weighs more than fat. That's my excuse anyway. I am secretly looking at the thread & have taken bits on board. Ironically I make banoffee pie & love it but I don't actually eat it as I have some weird banana intolerance.. I have to check the ingredients on smoothies.
Cotton Socks
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2 hours on my hob with my pan size. My biggest concern is the pan drying so I use a stew pot. The reason why I feel pride at my Banoffee pie is because I haven't forgotten about the cans. I can put chips in the oven & burn them but have never managed to explode a can. I had a delivery sub a couple of months ago that had a ring pull top. According to Google they don't explode if you turn them upside down. I wasn't prepared to risk that so made a special trip to get the proper ones.
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brighton_dave
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Daughter made this evening, I could literally do a whole one in a sitting.
The green man in Ringmer does a great one, huge serving.
Digestive base for sure...
The green man in Ringmer does a great one, huge serving.
Digestive base for sure...
Bake off tonight.....
Agree. Nothing wrong with the consistency, just need to let it set overnight.
tigertim68
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- Sep 3, 2012
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Pastry is best
Well I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. I too thought the biscuit base was the original and now I find out not only am I wrong, but the original creator looks on it the same way I would if the club replaced the brass band version of GOSBTS with a disco remix version.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...scrumpdillyicious.blogspot.com
I don't think I've ever had it with pastry - and I'm not going to start!
(As an aside I didn't know the original Hungry Monk restaurant had closed. Our younger American relatives had always wanted to visit it as their parents had been).
Gazwag
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I have always used a pasty base (ready made though) just like the original.
How on earth could you understand instruction from him without a translator ?My old head chef was a six foot tall, six foot wide Geordie, I wasn't going to tell him ANYTHING
I also notice the spelling is different. I'd always spelt it as 'Banoffee', but in Snowflake's article it's 'Banoffi'.
Maybe there's room for a compromise? If it's spelt 'Banoffi' it's with a pastry base, and if it's 'Banoffee' it's biscuit.
There. Solved. I'm off to the Middle East to sort them out now.
Maybe there's room for a compromise? If it's spelt 'Banoffi' it's with a pastry base, and if it's 'Banoffee' it's biscuit.
There. Solved. I'm off to the Middle East to sort them out now.
- Jul 10, 2003
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It was pastry when we were last at the Hungry Monk, a long, long, long time ago 
I still have a couple of their cookbooks with extra hand drawn illustrations by Graham Jeffrey, the illustrator of the books and vicar who married us.
I still have a couple of their cookbooks with extra hand drawn illustrations by Graham Jeffrey, the illustrator of the books and vicar who married us.
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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The last time I ate at the Hungry Monk they served petit fours with after dinner coffee and one was a banoffee pie inspired chocolate. Had neither biscuit or pastry, but it was very nice. Replace everything in life with chocolate.* How could you go wrong?
* -Except tea pots. Who do you think you are, Heston Blumenthal?
* -Except tea pots. Who do you think you are, Heston Blumenthal?
