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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


Jul 20, 2003
20,693
I swear some of the people on here probably think tart tatin should be made with a biscuit base.
 






Super Steve Earle

Well-known member
Feb 23, 2009
8,931
North of Brighton
Why would we trust the word of Ian Dowding? The idiot didn’t patent or copyright any aspect of it otherwise he would have been a multimillionaire and The Hungry Monk would still be there!
 


A1X

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Sep 1, 2017
20,558
Deepest, darkest Sussex
Pie:
a baked food consisting of a sweet or savoury filling in a pastry-lined dish, often covered with a pastry crust.
 


El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
Helpful Moderator
Jul 5, 2003
40,013
Pattknull med Haksprut
I'm pretty sure @El Presidente will be able to tell you about a variety of pie that most definitely does not have a pastry crust.

I refer the honourable lady to European Granny Cumbath 28 , which may cause her to change her opinion.
 




KZNSeagull

Well-known member
Nov 26, 2007
21,099
Wolsingham, County Durham
It may have pie in it's name but it is not a pie.
Shepherd's Pie is also not a pie. Neither is cottage pie.
This is a pie:

pie.jpg
 










sussex_guy2k2

Well-known member
Jun 6, 2014
4,083
The traditional is a pastry, the better version is the biscuit.

It’s like the Bakewell tart - the newer version is vastly superior to the original.
 


Greg Bobkin

Silver Seagull
May 22, 2012
16,059
Two bits of bread and make it into a sandwich.
 




HyperTony

Well-known member
May 20, 2023
216
I have vague recollections of making a "Banoffi style" desert using caramelised condensed milk, cream, bananas and ...Nice biscuits! The recipe was in the No73 annual from the mid 80's.
The evil, dirty bastards.
 


South Stand Bonfire

Who lit that match then?
NSC Patron
Jan 24, 2009
2,540
Shoreham-a-la-mer
The optimal boiling time of the condensed milk in the can is actually a minimum of 3 hours. The BISCUIT base chills in the fridge during this time and you very lightly butter the BISCUIT base with the banoffee mix before you arrange the banana slices so that they stick to the BISCUIT base and don’t slide off. Then you dump the rest of the banoffee mixture all over them. Use a dampened spoon to smooth the top before chilling. The cream and chocy toppings can be added later when it’s fully chilled.
 








BadFish

Huge Member
Oct 19, 2003
18,219
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.
Nice solution, we will accept it if you switch it around before you head off to Gaza.
 


BadFish

Huge Member
Oct 19, 2003
18,219
A biscuit base I can cope with, I am even wondering abiut a hobnob options (experimental).

But all this talk of chocolate it really sending me over the edge. Coffee people, it had coffee on the top and it's important!
 






BadFish

Huge Member
Oct 19, 2003
18,219
What sort of monster makes it with pastry? Wonders never cease
Proper Sussex folk, not these blow ins who can certainly be druv.
 




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