Name: Italian Paste Soup
Ingredients: 1 quart stock; 2 ounces small Italian paste (stars, rings, or other shapes)

Italian Paste Soup

Ingredients

1 quart stock
2 ounces small Italian paste (stars, rings, or other shapes)

Directions

Bring the stock to a boil in a pot.
Add the small Italian pasta to the boiling stock.
Boil for 20 minutes or until the pasta is cooked through.
Serve hot.

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

Small italian pasta: Provides the body of the soup and absorbs some of the stock as it cooks.
Stock: Forms the liquid base that carries the flavor 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.