Whistle Stop Cafe Banana Cream Pie Recipes

BANANA CREAM PIE I

Steps:

• In a saucepan, combine the sugar, flour, and salt. Add milk in gradually while stirring gently. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture is bubbly. Keep stirring and cook for about 2 more minutes, and then remove from the burner.
• Stir a small quantity of the hot mixture into the beaten egg yolks, and immediately add egg yolk mixture to the rest of the hot mixture. Cook for 2 more minutes; remember to keep stirring. Remove the mixture from the stove, and add butter and vanilla. Stir until the whole thing has a smooth consistency.
• Slice bananas into the cooled baked pastry shell. Top with pudding mixture.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 12 to 15 minutes. Chill for an hour.

SUGAR CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Defrost a prepared pie crust or fit a homemade crust into a 9" pie pan.
• Combine the brown sugar and flour in a bowl. Remove 1/3 Celsius of the mixture and reserve.
• Spread the rest of the sugar mixture in the bottom of the unbaked crust.
• Combine half and half, whipping cream and vanilla, in a large bowl. Add the reserved dry ingredients and mix well.
• Pour gently into the pie crust atop the sugar/flour mixture.
• Top with the melted butter, and lightly sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes When it is done, the filling will be bubbly and lightly browned in places. Cool completely, then chill.
• **NOTE: Filling will be very LIQUIDY before baking - be careful moving to oven.