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Banana Pie

Ingredients:

Filling

• 4 ripe bananas
• ½ spoon of grounded cinnamon
• 1 lemon
• 4 legs yolks
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 cups milk
• ½ spoon vanilla essence
• ½ cup corn flour

Pastry

• 225 g flour
• 50 g butter
• 50 g lard
• 2 tablespoons of butter

Preparation:

Sift the flour in to bowl, add the butter and the lard in small pieces. Using your hands mix the ingredients until a crumbly stage. Add the water and knead until it becomes soft dough. Cover at let it rest in the fridge for 30 to 40 minutes.

For the filling: In a saucepan bate the yolks, add the sugar, the milk and the corn flour and bring it to the boil at very low heal and constantly stirring until slightly thicken. Take the saucepan of the fire.

On a table top put some flour and extend the dough very thin; put the dough into a pie baking dish (previously buttered), making sure to sure to cut off all the extra bits of the edges. Pour the filling, just enough to cover ¾ of the pie dish.

Peel and cut the bananas in small circles, rinse them with some lemon juice and the cinnamon. Put each banana circle nicely over the sauce covering the entire dish. Add some more filling to cover the bananas.

Bake for 30 minutes in a 180C oven. Serve warm.