Macaroni a la Creme Aigre

Ingredients

• a pound of macaroni
• eight ounces of butter
• a tablespoonful of flour
• a pint of sour cream
• pepper
• salt
• a grate of nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Boil macaroni in salted water for twenty minutes, cool, then mix with fried butter and flour.

2. 2

   Add sour cream, shake, and mix in cheese, seasoning to taste.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housewife's referee (1898) by Harriet Anne de Salis, University of Leeds Library, page 117. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Macaroni a la Creme Aigre. — Take a pound of macaroni and boil in salt and water, and let it boil for twenty minutes, pour off* the water and cool with cold water ; have ready eight ounces of butter which has been fried, with a tablespoonful of flour of a light colour, add a pint of sour cream, boil it up and mix, whilst continually shaking it add eight ounces of grated Parmesan cheese and season with pepper, salt, and a grate of nutmeg

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