Pi day misadventure

[nosrednayduj]

After dinner I decided to make a pie on the spur of the moment. I'm doing a low fiber diet for a few days before a colonoscopy, so the regular fruit kind of pies might be contraindicated, but a banana cream pie should work. I've never made one before.

I looked up a recipe in Joy of Cooking. It's the usual mix eggs and milk and heat them carefully over a double boiler, and I pretty much know how to do that, so I'm not daunted. I get the pie dough ready and in the pan and baking and the custard seems to be starting to thicken and all is going well.

I decide it's time to take the custard off the heat, and since I started kind of late, I thought maybe I should help the cooling process by dunking the double boiler insert in a water bath. Unfortunately, I managed to get water in the custard instead. I tried to pour the water off the top of the custard, but that wasn't really successful.

I stuck it back on the heat and stirred for a while. Then I more carefully put it back in the water bath and then I put it in the fridge. After it was cool it did not seem to be setting.

So I put it back on the heat with a random amount of cornstarch and tried again with the whole water bath. By this time it's really getting late. I decide it's actually going to set, so I've put it in the pie pan with the bananas in the fridge and we will eat it tomorrow. Either it will be pie or it will be soup.

Comments

[lauradi7dw]

Visiting Flo. I bought a Key Lime pie at the River Valley co-op, shared around with family and friends.

[apparentparadox]

That's the good thing about cooking. If you start with good ingredients and don't mess up too badly, you'll end up with something edible. It might not be what you had planned, but it will still be tasty.

[nosrednayduj]

Ended up putting it in the freezer. Took it out this morning and let it thaw a bit. Soup it is! Back in the freezer, but there's only 1/3 of the pie left after the lunch hordes got to it.