Dressed Macaroni

Ingredients

• Four ounces of pipe maccaroni
• Parmesan cheese
• any finely flavoured English cheese
• a small teaspoonful of flour
• butter
• cream or gravy

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve butter and stir in flour before adding any liquid.

2. 2

   Mix in cream or gravy and bring to a boil before adding macaroni and cheese.

3. 3

   Toss gently to ensure smoothness and adherence of cheese to the pasta.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 350. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DRESSED MACCARONI. After careful and repeated trial of different modes of dressing various kinds of maccaroni, we find that in preparing them with Parmesan cheese, unmixed with any of a more mellow nature, there is always a chance of failure, from its tendency to gather into lumps ; we would therefore recommend the inexperienced reader to substitute for it in part, at least, any finely flavoured English cheese ; and the better to ensure its blending smoothly with the other ingredients (when neither white, nor any other thickened sauce is used with it), to dissolve the butter, and to stir to it a small teaspoonful of flour, before any liquid is added, then carefully to mix with it the cream or gravy, as directed for Sauce Tournee , Chapter V., and to give this a boil before the maccaroni and cheese are added : if gently tossed as these become hot, the whole will be smooth, and the cheese will adhere properly to the paste. Four ounces of pipe maccaroni

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