Macaroni Cheese

Ingredients

• Four oz. macaroni
• 1 oz. butter
• 1 oz. flour
• ½ pint of milk
• 5 oz. grated cheese
• salt
• pepper
• cayenne
• mustard

Method

1. 1

   Boil macaroni until tender, cut into lengths.

2. 2

   Melt butter, add flour and milk, boil, then add cheese and seasonings.

3. 3

   Mix with macaroni, pour into a dish, top with cheese, and brown in the oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Cameron's cookery book (1898) by Ida Cameron, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 pint of milk ; take off the fire, and add gradually 3 yolks of eggs, 1 teaspoonful of Tarragon vinegar, and 1 of Chili vinegar, \ teaspoonful of salt, a good pinch of cayenne pepper, and a teaspoonful of chopped parsley ; stir into this 1 pint of picked shrimps, and a chopped gherkin. Fill the tomatoes with the mixture piled up, and decorate with hard-boiled yolk of egg rubbed through a sieve. Dish on a bed of small cress, and serve as a savoury. Sardine Sandwiches. One small box of sardines is required. Fillet and pouud in a mortar the sardines, with their oil, a little anchovy MISS CAMERON'S COOKERY BOOK. 131 essence or paste. 1 oz. of butter, pepper, cayenne, 2 teaspoonfuls of Chili vinegar, and the yolks of 2 hard-boiled eggu, which have been rubbed through a sieve. Spread this mixture on either puff paste or short crust which has been rolled out to a thin sheet. Brush with egg outside edges, and place another sheet of paste over mixture. Brush over with a beaten egg, and bake till a light golden colour. When cooked, cut any shape or size required. Cauliflower au Fromage. One cauliflower, 3 oz. grated cheese (Parmesan is the best), 1 oz. butter, pepper, and salt: Boil the cauliflower till tender (take care it does not fall to pieces), drain it, and place it on a buttered entremet dish; sprinkle the cheese thickly over it; put the butter on it in small pieces, dust over with a little pepper and salt, and place it in the oven for ten minutes. Place little croutes of fried bread or toast round edge of dish, and serve hot. Eggs and Mushrooms. Four hard boiled eggs, f lb. mushrooms, 1 teaspoonful of finely-chopped parsley, 6 rounds of buttered toast 4 inches across, pepper and salt to taste. Cut the hard-boiled eggs in slices, and place on rounds of toast; sprinkle a little parsley over each round. Have ready the mushrooms, which have been finely chopped and cooked for ten minutes ; add to them a tablespoonful of bread crumbs, season with pepper, salt, and a little cayenne ; soften with a tablespoonful of cream or white sauce. Spread this mixture thickly over the eggs; decorate with hard-boiled yolk of egg rubbed through a sieve. Brown the whole under the griller of a gas stove or with a salamander. • Macaroni Cheese. Four oz. macaroni, 1 oz. butter, 1 oz. flour, \ pint of milk, 5 oz. grated cheese (if Parmesan is used less is. 132 MISS CAMERON'S COOKERY BOOK. required), salt, pepper, cayenne, and mustard

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