Boston Cream Pie

This is not a pie at all but a cake, and apparently the focus of much heated debate by the culinarily concerned of its native land, and although I make up the cake part as if for a Victoria sponge, there are enough differing factors overall to make me feel this deserves its own entry. The story is that, in 1850, the pastry chef at Boston’s Parker House Hotel (an American gastronomic hotbed, obviously, since Parker House rolls evidently emanate from here too) had the brainwave of adding a bi