Boiled Macaroni
Ingredients
Directions
Boil macaroni in salted water until tender.
Strain into a colander and rinse with cold water to prevent sticking.
Add heavy cream and reheat.
Serve hot.
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
- Macaroni
- Forms the bulk of the dish and provides the starchy structure that holds the cream.
- Heavy cream
- Adds richness and moisture, coating the pasta and making it creamy when reheated.
The step that matters
Rinsing with cold water. Rinsing cooked pasta with cold water stops carryover cooking and washes off surface starch, which helps prevent the noodles from clumping together.
“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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