Macaroni

Ingredients

• a dishtul of macaroni
• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• a teacupful of cream, or rich milk
• a heaping saltspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Wash and soak like rice, having broken it up into lengths of six or eight inches.

2. 2

   Wipe dry and put into a plenty of boiling water.

3. 3

   Boil half an hour, in salted water.

4. 4

   Meanwhile, for an average dishtul, cream two tablespoonfuls of butter, scald a teacupful of cream, or rich milk, stir the hot cream gradually to the butter, adding a heaping saltspoonful of salt.

5. 5

   Turn off all the water carefully from the macaroni, pour the butter and cream upon it in the kettle, and set it back on the fire to turn it over in the dressing.

6. 6

   Then dish for the table.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 118. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Macaroni. — Wash and soak like rice, having broken it up into lengths of six or eight inches. Wipe dry and put into a plenty of boiling water. Boil half an hour, in salted water. Meanwhile, for an average dishtul, cream two tablespoonfuls of butter, scald a teacupful of cream, or rich milk, stir the hot cream gradually to the butter, adding a heaping saltspoonful of salt

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