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Fruits, Dairy, Eggs Cyberealm, Desserts, Fruits, Pies 1 Pie

INGREDIENTS

2 Tea Bags
1 3/4 c Milk
1/3 c Sugar
1/4 c Milk
1/4 c Cornstarch
1 Egg
4 Egg Yolks
4 T Unsalted Butter, cut up
1/2 t Vanilla
1 1/4 c Unbleached Flour
1/3 c Cake Flour
1/2 t Salt
1/4 t Baking Powder
1/2 c Unsalted Butter, cut up
3 T To 5 Ice Water
1 1/4 c Heavy Cream
1 T Sugar
1/2 T Fruit-Flavored Tea, cold
5 oz Banana, pureed
15 oz Bananas, sliced

INSTRUCTIONS

Pastry Cream: In a heavy medium saucepan, combine tea bags, 1 3/4 cups
milk, and sugar. Bring to boiling, stirring to dissolve sugar. Remove
from heat, cover and set aside.  In a small mixing bowl, gradually stir
1/4 c milk into cornstarch to  form a smooth paste. Add egg. Beat at
medium speed until b lended.  Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating
well after each addition.  Remove tea bags from milk mixture, squeezing
out as much milk as  possible. Gradually beat hot milk mixture into egg
mixture at low  speed. Pour into a clean saucepan. Cook, whisking
constantly, over  medium-low heat until mixture becomes extrememly
thick and boils.  Pour into a large bowl. Add 4 tb butter and vanilla.
Beat at medium  speed until smooth. Pless plastic wrap directly on
surface of pastry  cream. Cool to room temperature, about 1 hour.
Refrigerate until  thoroughly chilled, about 2 hours.  Pate Brisee:
While pastry cream is cooling, in a food provcessor  combine flours,
salt, baking powder, and 1/2 c butter. Pulse with  quick on/off pulses
until mixture resembles peas.  With processor running, gradually add
ice water until dough cleans  sides of bowl and forms a ball. Shape
dough into a disc shape. Wrap  and refrigerate at least 30 minutes.  On
a lightly floured surface, roll pastry into a 12" circle. Fit into  a
9: pie plate. Roll edge under and flute. Prick dough all over with
tines of fork. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.  Preheat oven to
425øF. Line pastry with double thickness of foil.  Fill with dried
beans. Bake at 425øF for 15 minutes. Remove foil and  beans. Continue
baking pastry shell 5-10 minutes until lightly  browned. Cool on rack.
Cream Topping: Beat cream until it just begins to hold its
shapeGradually add 1 tb sugar and 1/2 tb tea., beating to stiff  peaks.
Cover and refrigerate.  Filling: Stir pureed banana into chilled pastry
cream until blended.  Fold in 1/2 c cream topping, then sliced bananas.
To Assemble: Mound banana cream filling into cooled pie shell. Spread
with remaining cream topping. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
Source: Victoria Magazine, August 1994 Typed by Katherine Smith
Cyberealm BBS Watertown NY 315-786-1120  From Gemini's MASSIVE
MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients)
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Calories: 3961
Calories From Fat: 2019
Total Fat: 229.3g
Cholesterol: 1516.3mg
Sodium: 1710.6mg
Potassium: 3306.9mg
Carbohydrates: 429.2g
Fiber: 20g
Sugar: 180g
Protein: 63.6g


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