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Directions for Boiling Macaroni

Boiled macaroni cooked in water, stock, or milk, then chilled with cold water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Cook

  1. Bring the water, stock, or milk to a boil.

  2. Add the macaroni and cook for 45 minutes.

Chill and drain

  1. Remove the macaroni and pour cold water over it to chill.

  2. Allow it to drain.

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 bulk of the dish, and its starch softens and thickens the texture as it cooks.

The step that matters

Cooking the macaroni for 45 minutes. Pasta keeps softening while it sits in boiling liquid, so timing decides between firm and mushy. Starch gelatinizes as it cooks, and extra time past the target makes the pieces soft and sticky.

“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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