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Italian Macaroni

A historical recipe from The Golden Rule Cook Book, by Sharpe, M. R. L. (Maud Russell Lorraine) (1912).

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A historical recipe

The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six hundred recipes for meatless dishes, by Sharpe, M. R. L. (Maud Russell Lorraine) (1912). Project Gutenberg eBook #55555.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. a pound of macaroni
  2. 1 tablespoon of melted butter
  3. 1 1/2 cups of tomato sauce

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Break 1/4 of a pound of macaroni into four-inch lengths, put in boiling salted water, and let it cook for twenty-five minutes.
  2. Drain, and put in a saucepan with 1 tablespoon of melted butter and 1 1/2 cups of tomato sauce;
  3. season well with salt and pepper, and serve on a hot flat dish with grated cheese plentifully sprinkled over it.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Large pot
  • Saucepan
  • Grater
  • Colander
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The Golden Rule Cook Book, by Sharpe, M. R. L. (Maud Russell Lorraine) (1912). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #55555 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55555). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.