Name: Macaroni Soup
Ingredients: ⅓ package macaroni or spaghetti; 1 quart clear stock; coarse sea salt to taste

Macaroni Soup

Ingredients

⅓ package macaroni or spaghetti
1 quart clear stock
coarse sea salt to taste

Directions

Cook the macaroni or spaghetti in boiling salted water until tender.
Drain quickly and add to 1 quart of clear stock.
Bring to a boil and serve.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Macaroni or spaghetti: Provides the starchy pasta body that makes the soup filling.
Clear stock: Supplies the liquid and savory flavor base for the soup.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.