Banoffee pie
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Banoffee pie (also spelled banoffi, or banoffy) is an English pastry based cake made from bananas, cream and boiled condensed milk (or dulce de leche), either on a pastry base or one made from crumbled biscuits and butter. Its name is a portmanteau constructed from the words "banana" and "toffee".
[edit] History
Credit for the cake's invention is claimed by Ian Dowding and Nigel Mackenzie of The Hungry Monk restaurant in Jevington, East Sussex. They claim to have invented - or "evolved" - the cake in 1972, and the restaurant's exterior bears a blue plaque to that effect.[1] The dish, with various stories of its source, spread, and in 1994 a number of supermarkets began selling it as an American pie, leading Dowding and Mackenzie to offer a £10,000 prize to anyone who could disprove their claim.[2]
The recipe was originally revealed in 'The Deeper Secrets of the Hungry Monk' in 1974 (now out of print). The recipe was reprinted in the Hungry Monk's later cookbook 'In Heaven with the Hungry Monk' (1997). Ian Dowding has since put his original recipe online because he is "pedantic about the correct version", and stated that his "pet hates are biscuit crumb bases and that horrible cream in aerosols".[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "The Completely True and Utter Story of Banoffi Pie". Ian Dowding. http://www.iandowding.co.uk/thebanoffipiequestion/thebanoffipiequestion.html. Retrieved on 2009-06-21.
- ^ "Daily Telegraph article about Banoffee Pie reward". Banoffee.co.uk. 1994-05-05. http://www.banoffee.co.uk/banoffee/telegraph.html. Retrieved on 2009-06-21.
- ^ "Banoffi cake Recipe". Ian Dowding. http://www.iandowding.co.uk/recipes/files/a96b1884215e21687c47e5889c6243ce-6.html. Retrieved on 2009-06-21.
[edit] External links
- "The Completely True and Utter Story of Banoffi Pie" from Ian Dowding's website
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