June Brown's recipe for banana and coconut Pie

Ingredients

  • 8oz of short pastry
  • 25g caster sugar
  • 10ml milk
  • 80g desiccated coconut
  • 3 tablespoons of jam
  • 2-3 bananas

 

Method

  • Roll two-thirds of the pastry into a circle

  • Line a pie dish with the pastry

  • June BrownSpread the jam in the centre leaving two inches of bare pastry edges

  • Chop up the bananas and place in the jam

  • Sprinkle with desiccated coconut

  • Fold the bare edges of the pastry up around the banana

  • Roll out the remaining pastry and brush the edges with milk

  • Fit this pastry as a lid onto the pie

  • Brush the top with milk and sprinkle on caster sugar

  • Bake in a preheated oven at 200C/400F/gas mark 6 for 25 minutes.