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Macaroni or Spaghetti Soup

A simple soup made by cooking macaroni or spaghetti, draining, chilling, cutting, and adding to hot stock.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the pasta

  1. Cook the macaroni in boiling salted water until tender, about 20 to 40 minutes depending on size and age.

  2. Drain and chill in cold water, then cut into short lengths.

Serve

  1. Add the cut macaroni to hot stock.

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 or spaghetti
Provides the starchy body and bite that the soup is built around.

“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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