Cheese with Macaroni

Ingredients

• Put a pint milk
• two pints water
• half pound pipe macaroni
• six ounces grated cheese
• season with a little pepper
• one-fourth pound butter
• some very fine bread-crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Boil milk and water with salt, add macaroni and cook until tender.

2. 2

   Drain and mix with cheese and butter in a deep dish.

3. 3

   Top with remaining cheese and bread-crumbs.

4. 4

   Brown under a salamander or fire.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 110. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cheese with Macaroni, — Put a pint milk and two pints water into a saucepan with sufficient salt to flavor it ; place it on the fire and when it boils quickly drop in a half pound pipe macaroni. Keep the water boiling until it is quite tender fan hour or more), drain the macaroni and put it into a deep disn. Have ready six ounces grated cheese, either Parmesan or Cheshire, sprinkle it amongst the macaroni and some of the butter cut into small pieces, reserving some of the cheese for the top layer. Season with a little pepper, and cover the top layer of cheese with some very fine bread* crumbs. Warm, without oiling, the remainder of one-fourth pound butter

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