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Boiled Macaroni

A simple boiled macaroni dish cooked in salted water and finished with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Boiled Macaroni

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the macaroni

  1. Plunge the macaroni into boiling water with salt.

  2. Boil for 20 minutes.

  3. Drain in a colander and rinse with cold water to prevent sticking.

Finish with cream

  1. Reheat the macaroni in cream and add salt to taste.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Starch that softens and swells as it cooks, giving the pasta its body and bite.
Cream
Adds fat and moisture, so the reheated pasta tastes rich and coats smoothly.

The step that matters

Rinse with cold water after draining. Cold water stops the pasta from cooking further and washes off surface starch, which otherwise makes the pieces clump together.

“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.

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