Banana Filling
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare boiled icing until it thickens enough to spread.
Stir in the bananas until well combined.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Boiled icing
- Forms the creamy, spreadable body of the filling.
- Bananas
- Add sweetness, soft texture and banana flavour to the filling.
The step that matters
Thickening the boiled icing. The icing must thicken enough to spread before the bananas go in. If it is too thin, the banana pieces will sink and the filling will run out of the layers. Cooking it to the right consistency gives it enough body to hold the fruit evenly.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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