Baked Macaroni with Cheese

Ingredients

• Do not wash the macaroni
• some rich cheese
• bits of butter
• salt
• pepper
• a few spoonfuls of milk

Method

1. 1

   Break macaroni into inch-lengths and boil in salted water for 45 minutes.

2. 2

   Drain and layer in a pudding dish with cheese and butter, seasoning with salt and pepper.

3. 3

   Top with macaroni, add milk, and bake slowly until golden-brown, about half an hour.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 121. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED .MACARONI, WITH CHEESE, Do not wash the macaroni. Break it into inch-lengths. and throw it into boiling, salted water. Stir frequently to prevent it settling to the bottom, and boil slowly. Mac- aroni does not nearlv reach its full size when boiled 2/6 THE PATTERN COOK-BOOK. rapidly; hence forty-five minutes is none too long to allow for its cooking. Turn it when done into a colander, and drain well. Arrange a layer of macaroni in the bottom of a pudding-dish, upon it strew some rich cheese (the Parmesan is generally used), and scatter over this some bits of butter. Add a sprinkling of salt and pepper, then another layer of macaroni and cheese ; and fill the dish in this order, having macaroni at the top, buttered well, but without the cheese. Add a few spoon- fuls of milk

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