Recipes
Pasta Recipes
Any pasta recipe is always welcome. Here are a few easy macaroni recipes for everyday use. I hope you'll find them handy and tasty. remember that any pasta recipe can always be improved by sprinkling a little grated parmasan cheese over it. If parmasan cheese is not available, any strong flavoured cheese will do.
MACARONI RECIPES
Home-made macaroni recipe
Ingredients for this recipe:
- 4 Cups of flour
- 1 Egg
- Water
The Method for This Recipe:
- To four cupfuls of flour, add one egg well beaten, and enough water to make dough that can be rolled.
- Roll thin on a breadboard and cut into strips.
- Dry in the sun.
- The best arrangement for this purpose is a wooden frame to which a square of cheese-cloth has been tightly tacked, upon which the macaroni may be laid in such a way as not to touch, and afterwards covered with a cheese-cloth to keep off the dust during the drying.
Boiled macaroni Recipe
Ingredients for this recipe:
- 1 Large cup of macaroni
- 1 Pint of milk
- Salt to taste
- 1 Egg
The method for this recipe:
- Put a large cup of macaroni into boiling water and cook until tender.
- When done, drain thoroughly, then add a pint of milk, part cream, a little salt and one well-beaten egg; stir over the fire until it thickens, and serve hot.
Macaroni with cream sauce Recipe
Ingredients for this recipe:
- Macaroni
- 1 pint of rich milk
- 1 Heaped tablespoon flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
The method for this recipe:
- Cook the macaroni as directed in the proceeding recipe, and serve with a cream sauce.
- Prepare the cream sauce by heating a scant pint of rich milk to boiling, in a double boiler.
- When boiling, add a heaping tablespoonful of flour, rubbed smoothed in a little milk and 1/4 teaspoonful of salt.
- The sauce may be flavored by steeping in the milk before thickening for ten or fifteen minutes, a slice of onion or a few bits of celery, and then removing with a fork.
Macaroni with tomato sauce Recipe
Ingredients for this recipe:
- 1 Cup macaroni
- Milk (for cooking, half and half with water)
- 1 Pint stewed tomatoes
- 1 Tablespoon flour
- Salt to taste
- ½ Cup sweet cream
Method for this recipe:
- Drop a cup of macaroni into boiling milk and water, equal parts.
- Let it boil for an hour, or until perfectly tender.
- In the meantime prepare the sauce by rubbing a pint of stewed or canned tomatoes through a colander to remove all seeds and fragments.
- Heat to boiling, thicken with a little flour; a tablespoonful to the pint will be about the requisite proportion.
- Add salt and if desired and a half cup of very thin sweet cream.
- Dish the macaroni into individual dishes, and serve with a small quantity of the sauce poured over each dish.
Macaroni baked with granola Recipe
Ingredients for this recipe:
- 1 Large cup of macaroni
- Milk (for cooking) half and half with water
- Granola
- 1 Pint milk
- 2 Egg yolks
- ¼ Teaspoon salt
The method for this recipe:
- Cook a large cup of macaroni until tender in boiling milk and water.
- When done, drain and put a layer of the macaroni in the bottom of a pudding dish, and sprinkle over it a scant teaspoonful of granola.
- Add a second and third layer and sprinkle each with granola.
- Then pour over the custard sauce prepared by mixing together a pint of milk, the well beaten yolks of two eggs or one whole egg, and 1/4 teaspoonful of salt. Care should be taken to arrange the macaroni in layers loosely, so that the sauce will readily permeate the whole.
- Bake for a few minutes only, until the custard has well set, and serve.
Eggs and macaroni Recipe
Ingredients for this recipe:
- 1 Cup macaroni
- 4 Egg yolks
- 13/4 Rich milk
- ¼ Teaspoon salt
- 1 Heaped teaspoon flour
- Grated bread crumbs
Method for this recipe:
- Cook a cup of macaroni in boiling water.
- While the macaroni is cooking, boil the yolks of four eggs until mealy.
- The whole egg may be used if caught so the yolks are mealy in the whites simply jellied, not hardened.
- When the macaroni is done, drain and put a layer of it arranged loosely in the bottom of a pudding dish.
- Slice the cooked egg yolks and spread a layer of them over the macaroni.
- Fill the dish with alternate layers of macaroni and egg, taking care to have the top layer of macaroni.
- Pour over the whole a cream sauce prepared as follows:
- Heat 13/4 cup of rich milk until boiling, add 1/4 teaspoonful of salt and one heaping spoonful of flour rubbed smooth in a little cold milk.
- Cook until thickened, and then pour over the macaroni.
- Sprinkle the top with grated bread crumbs, and brown in a hot oven for eight or ten minutes.
- Serve hot.
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