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Timbale De Maccaroni

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Timbale De Maccaroni

Oven, in the book's wordsA gentle oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the maccaroni in water until it swells and is soft enough to cut.

  2. Cut the maccaroni into short pieces, about 2 inches long.

  3. Grease a mold and stick the maccaroni closely together all over the mold.

  4. Fill the space in the mold with your choice of meat.

  5. Close the mold carefully and boil it.

  6. Serve with rich white sauce on the side, not poured over the timbale.

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. Meat + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,167 recipes

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