 A slice of banoffee pie served withice cream | |
| Type | Pie |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | Jevington,East Sussex |
| Created by | Nigel Mackenzie and Ian Dowding |
| Main ingredients | Pastry base or crumbled biscuits, butter, bananas,cream,toffee |
Banoffee pie orbanoffi pie is a British dessertpie made frombananas,whipped cream, and a thickcaramel sauce (made from boiledcondensed milk ormilk jam), combined either on a pastry base or one made from crumbledbiscuits and butter.[1] Some versions includechocolate,coffee, or both. The name is aportmanteau combining the wordsbanana andtoffee.[2]
Credit for the pie's invention is claimed by Nigel Mackenzie and Ian Dowding,[3] the owner and chef respectively of the former Hungry Monk Restaurant inJevington,East Sussex, England.[4] They said they created the dessert in 1971,[5] basing it on a San Francisco recipe for "Blum's Coffee Toffee Pie",[6][7][8][9][10][11] which usedmilk jam, a soft toffee made by boiling an unopened can ofcondensed milk for several hours. Mackenzie and Dowding found they were unable to perfect the recipe consistently,[12] and after trying various changes including the addition of apple ormandarin orange, Mackenzie suggested banana and Dowding later said that "straight away we knew we had got it right". Mackenzie suggested the name "banoffi pie", and the dish proved so popular with their customers that they "couldn't take it off" the menu.[13]
The recipe was published inThe Deeper Secrets of The Hungry Monk in 1974, and reprinted in the 1997 cookbookIn Heaven with The Hungry Monk. Similar recipes were adopted by other restaurants throughout the world.[13] In 1984, several supermarkets began selling it as an American pie, leading Mackenzie to offer a £10,000 prize to anyone who could disprove their claim to be the English inventors.[14] Dowding stated that his "pet hates are biscuit crumb bases and that horrible cream inaerosols".[15] It wasMargaret Thatcher's favourite food to cook.[16] The wordbanoffee entered the English language, used to describe any food or product that tastes or smells of both banana and toffee.[2]
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