Macaroni Bonne Femme

Ingredients

• 1 breakfastcup 0/ macaroni
• 1 pint boiling water
• 1 tablespoonful flour
• £ tablespoonful butter or lard
• 6 olives
• 1 good tablespoonful grated cheese
• A pinch of pepper and salt

Method

1. 1

   Boil the macaroni in salted and peppered water and drain.

2. 2

   While the macaroni is boiling, make a brown sauce by melting the butter in a small enamel saucepan.

3. 3

   When it is melted and begins to sing, shake in the flour and stir quickly with a wooden spoon until the flour and butter are mixed to a brown paste, then pour in the warmed stock by degrees, add the pinch of salt and pepper, let it come to the boil, then take off the fire and let it simmer five to ten minutes.

4. 4

   Put the macaroni back into the empty saucepan, add the brown sauce, the grated cheese, and the olives stoned and thinly sliced.

5. 5

   Cook together for five minutes over a slow fire.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Macaroni Bonne Femme. (II). 1 breakfastcup 0/ macaroni. 1 pint boiling water, i tablespoonful flour. £ tablespoonful butter or lard. 6 olives. 1 good tablespoonful grated cheese. A pinch of pepper and salt

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