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Boiled Macaroni

Boiled macaroni is cooked in salted water, then drained and rinsed.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Break the macaroni into 1-inch pieces.

  2. Wash the macaroni and drop it into the boiling salted water.

Cook and drain

  1. Boil rapidly for 30 minutes.

  2. Drain the macaroni in a colander.

  3. Rinse the macaroni under cold running water, then shake well and drain again.

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 softens its starch so it becomes tender to eat.

The step that matters

Boil rapidly in plenty of salted water. Pasta needs a full rolling boil so the water temperature recovers quickly after the macaroni goes in and the pieces cook evenly. Enough water keeps the starch from clumping and washing out into a sticky mass.

“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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