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A simple boiled macaroni dish seasoned with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Hints About Macaroni

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bring 1 gallon of water to a rolling boil.

  2. Add 1 lb of macaroni and a generous amount of coarse sea salt.

  3. Boil for 20 to 30 minutes until tender.

  4. Drain 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
Forms the main body of the dish; cooking gelatinizes its starch until the pasta turns tender and chewy.
Water
Cooking medium that carries heat evenly so the pasta cooks through at a steady rate.

The step that matters

Use a large volume of rapidly boiling water. Pasta needs plenty of boiling water so the temperature stays high after the macaroni goes in. A large pot keeps the water near a boil, helping the pasta cook evenly instead of turning gummy or unevenly tender.

“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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