RECIPE: Banana Cream Pie

Filling ingredients:

• 2 cups milk

• 1 cup cream

• 4 ½ tablespoons flour

• 1 ½ tablespoons cornstarch

• ¾ cup sugar

• ½ teaspoon salt

• 4 egg yolks

• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla

• 3 bananas

• Whipped topping

• 1 baked pie shell

Directions:

1. Scald milk and cream.
2. Combine flour, cornstarch, sugar and salt; mix.
3. Add to milk and cook until thickened, stirring constantly (15 minutes).
4. Stir small amount of mixture into beat egg yolks, add yolks and cook a few minutes longer.
5. Add vanilla.
6. Slice bananas on bottom of pie shell and pour in filling.
7. Spread with whipped topping and chill. Makes 1- 10 inch pie.

Pie shell ingredients (Allrecipes.com):

• 1 cup all-purpose flour

• ½ teaspoon salt

• 1/3 cup shortening

• 3 tablespoons cold water

Directions:

   1. Mix flour and salt in a large bowl. Cut in shortening with a pastry blender until mixture is completely blended and appears crumbly.

   2. Mix in water, 1 tablespoon at a time, by lightly tossing with a fork. Add only enough water to form mixture into a ball. The dough will be sticky and tough if too much water is added, and it will crack and tear when rolled if too little is added.

   3. Roll out the dough into a circle 1 inch larger than the inverted pie plate.

   4. Fold circle of dough in half, and gently lift. Place into pie plate and unfold. Either prick the entire surface of dough with a fork, or weight the bottom of the crust with pie weights while baking.