Macaroni

Ingredients

• One half cup macaroni
• twenty minutes

Method

1. 1

   Cook macaroni in boiling salted water for twenty minutes or until tender.

2. 2

   Drain, pour cold water through it, and serve plain, with hot white sauce or tomato sauce, or use it with meat in scalloped meat.

3. 3

   Or cover with sauce, grated cheese, and buttered crumbs and bake until crumbs are brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The school kitchen textbook (1915) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 97. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MACARONI Macaroni is a nutritious and economical food and should be used more freely than it is. Much of the dislike for it arises from ignorance as to the proper mode of cooking. It is made from the choicest varieties of wheat, — a grain which contains all the substances needed for food, though not in the proper proportion. Wheat lacks water and fat. Macaroni, being only wheat flour and water made into a hard, dry paste, is not palatable unless cooked, till tender, in plenty of water or other liquid, and seasoned well or combined with other foods, particularly some form of fat, as butter, milk, cheese, eggs, or meat broth. Macaroni is prepared in a variety of forms, — spaghetti, Italian paste of fanciful shapes, vermicelli, and round, tubu- lar, and flat macaroni. The paste, while soft, is rolled into sheets, and cut with fancy cutters, or it is forced through metallic plates which have perforations, sometimes in the form of small rings with the center of the hole filled. It is then dried thoroughly and will keep in a dry place a long time. Macaroni, as often served, is hard and dry, or moist and tasteless. On account of the uneven surface which the macaroni assumes in the serving dish and which hardens on the edges when in the hot oven, a sauce, either white or tomato, should be poured over it to fill the spaces. Then cover with buttered crumbs which in baking will make a crisp brown crust. Recipe, No. 106. Macaroni One half cup macaroni, measured after breaking into inch pieces. Cook in boiling salted water twenty minutes

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