Name: Macaroni Soup
Ingredients: ½ stick of macaroni; ¼ pint cold water; 1 pint boiling stock; black pepper to taste

Macaroni Soup

Ingredients

½ stick of macaroni
¼ pint cold water
1 pint boiling stock
black pepper to taste

Directions

Soften the macaroni

Soak the macaroni in cold water for 10 minutes.
Simmer the soaked macaroni in the same water for 30 minutes.

Finish the soup

Cut the macaroni into small pieces.
Drop the pieces into the boiling stock.

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 body of the soup and gives it a soft, starchy texture as it cooks.
Stock: Supplies most of the liquid and the savoury flavour of 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.