Tagilatelli (Housewife Style)

Ingredients

• one pound of sifted flour
• break five eggs in it
• a teaspoonful of salt
• about an ounce of butter
• three quarts of boiling salt water
• half a pint of broth
• two ounces of butter
• three ounces of grated cheese
• two or three spoonfuls of good beef gravy

Method

1. 1

   Make a paste with flour, eggs, salt, and butter.

2. 2

   Roll and cut into shreds.

3. 3

   Boil in salted water, then mix with broth, butter, cheese, and gravy.

4. 4

   Toss and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical household cookery (1891) by E. Duret, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TA6LIATELLI (HOUSEWIFE STTLE). Put one pound of sifted flour on the paste-board, make a well in the centre, break five eggs in it, add a teaspoonful of salt and about an ounce of butter, with enough lukewarm water to melt the salt, work these well together to a firm smooth paste, and finish it by pressing the paste from you with the palms of the hands. Then cut it into four pieces, and roll it with the rolling-pin to the thickness of about the sixteenth part of an inch, let it dry for a little while, then fold each piece in ribbons of about two inches wide, taking care to sprinkle a little flour between the folds ; cut these through crossways into shreds about the eighth of an inch, take them up gently with both hands, to loosen them and prevent their adhering to one another, spread them again on the paste-board, and when all the paste is shred in this way immerse them (a few at a time) in three quarts of boil- ing salt water; stir, while you drop them in to prevent their getting lumpy, and after five or six minutes of sharp PRACTICAL HOUSEHOLD COOKERY. 57 ebullition drain them well on a sieve ; put them afterwards in a stewpan with half a pint of broth, two ounces of butter, salt and pepper to taste; let them simmer for a few minutes ; then add three ounces of grated cheese, two or three epoon- fuls of good beef gra

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