Macaroni Cheese

Ingredients

• ½ lb. macaroni
• 2 oz. grated cheese
• ½ pint of milk
• 2 quarts hot water
• 1½ oz. dripping or butter
• 1 oz. flour
• ½ teaspoonful salt

Method

1. 1

   Break the macaroni into small pieces; put them into a saucepan of hot water; leave the pan uncovered, and boil fast for half an hour; strain off the water.

2. 2

   Melt 1 oz. dripping in a small pan; remove from the fire, add the flour, mix well with a wooden spoon.

3. 3

   Pour in the milk very slowly, stirring constantly; add the salt and 1 oz. grated cheese; stir over a slow fire till the sauce boils, then pour it into a basin and mix well with the macaroni.

4. 4

   Grease an oval tin dish (flat); put the macaroni and sauce into it; sprinkle the remaining cheese over it, and bake in rather a quick oven or in front of the fire till brown.

5. 5

   Serve very hot.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The school cookery book (1881), page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 oz. dripping or butter ; 1 gill cold milk ; ^ teaspoonful salt ; 1 pinch pepper. Mash the potatoes (cold potatoes will do) till no lumps remain. Add the salt, pepper, milk, and half of the cheese ; mix well. Place the potatoes smoothly in a small greased pie dish, sprinkle the remaining cheese on the top, also the dripping in small pieces ; bake in a brisk oven or before the fire for a few minutes till it is a golden colour. If it is possible to add on the top a little gravy from any roast meat, it will be found an improvement. Serve very hot. 92 CHEAP DISHES WITHOUT MEAT. Fat Brose. — Required: 2 tablespoonfuls oatmeal; x y2 oz. dripping ; about 2 gills boiling water ; 1 pinch salt. Put the oatmeal, salt, and dripping in a basin; stir the boiling water in gradually ; put the mixture in a pan on the fire, and boil for about ten minutes. A pinch of pepper may be added, and a chopped onion (previously boiled). Peas Brose. — Required: 2 tablespoonfuls peas- meal ; 1 pinch of salt; about \ l/2 gills boiling water. Put the meal and salt in a basin ; stir the boiling water in gradually ; put the mixture in a pan on the fire, and boil for five minutes. Fat Peas Brose. — Required: 2 tablespoonfuls peasmeal ; 1 ]/2 oz. dripping ; about 1 gill boiling water ; 1 pinch salt. Prepare and cook in the same way as Fat Brose. Boil for five minutes. Macaroni Cheese. — Required: y lb. macaroni; 2 oz. grated cheese ; y pint of milk ; 2 quarts hot water; iy oz. dripping or butter; 1 oz. flour

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