Macaroni and Cheese

Ingredients

• half a pound of macaroni
• a good teaspoonful of salt
• a teacupful of cream or milk
• some small pieces of butter
• some grated cheese
• a thick layer of cracker crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Break macaroni into 1-2 inch pieces and cook in boiling salted water for about 20 minutes.

2. 2

   Drain and layer in a buttered pudding dish with grated cheese and butter.

3. 3

   Fill the dish, sprinkle with cracker crumbs, pour cream or milk over, and bake for half an hour until browned.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 137. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

macaroni and cheese, then turn over the soup stock and bake half an hour. MACARONI AND CHEESE. Break half a pound of macaroni into pieces an inch or two long ; cook it in boiling water, enough to cover it well ; put in a good teaspoonful of salt ; let it boil about twenty minutes. Drain it well and then put a layer in the bottom of a well-buttered pudding-dish, upon this some grated VEGETABLES. 207 cheese and small pieces of butter, a bit of salt, then more macaroni, and so on, filling the dish ; sprinkle the top layer with a thick layer of cracker crumbs. Pour over the whole a teacupful of cream or milk

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