Name: Brown Soup with Macaroni Rings and Cheese
Ingredients: ¼ cup macaroni; 5 cups brown soup stock; Salt to taste; Grated Parmesan cheese for serving

Brown Soup with Macaroni Rings and Cheese

Ingredients

¼ cup macaroni
5 cups brown soup stock
Salt to taste
Grated Parmesan cheese for serving

Directions

Prepare the macaroni

Break macaroni into ½-inch pieces.
Cook macaroni in boiling salted water until tender, then drain.
Cut cooked macaroni into ⅛-inch rings.

Make the soup

Bring brown soup stock to a boil.
Add macaroni rings to the soup and season with salt.
Serve with grated Parmesan cheese.

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: Provides the starchy body and bite that the soup is served with.
Brown soup stock: Forms the liquid base that carries the flavor of the dish.

“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.