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Macaroni Sauce

A sauce of macaroni cooked in milk and water, mixed with white sauce and seasoning, served over boiled poultry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,389 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Macaroni Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the macaroni

  1. Break the macaroni into small bits and soak it in equal parts milk and water for 1 hour.

Cook and combine

  1. Boil the soaked macaroni gently for 45 minutes.

  2. Strain the macaroni and add it to a nicely seasoned white sauce.

  3. Heat the mixture until hot and pour it over boiled chickens, turkey, or fowl.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Milk + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Sauce + chickentop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Milk + saucetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,759 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Forms the body of the dish, softening into the sauce as it simmers.
Milk
Softens the macaroni during soaking and adds richness to the sauce.
White sauce
Provides a creamy, smooth base that coats the macaroni and carries the flavour.

The step that matters

Boil the soaked macaroni gently for 45 minutes. Boiling too hard can break the pasta apart and leave it unevenly cooked. A gentle simmer lets the macaroni soften evenly so it blends smoothly into the sauce.

“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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