[Sca-cooks] handmade pasta

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

mind you, for small groups informally (not a feast) you can get some fun
having the guests make their own noodles.....
we did that, we made up the dough, and you got shown how the pasta maker
worked, and everyone made their own pasta......

for a feast definately make everything up ahead, and if the day is not dry
enough a food dehydrator set on LOW works wonders.
Kirsten Houseknecht
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "johnna holloway" <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] handmade pasta


> I have done homemade noodles for feasts before. One massive amount for
> 225 people and one smaller amount for 50 plus. I used a food processor
> to make up the noodle dough, ran it through the handcranked pasta
> machine, cut the noodles using the wide cutter (fettucini size. They
> were dried and stored  in plastic containers until used for the feast.
> It takes hours to do the noodles for 200 plus and I did them well in
> advance. You have to have a place a dry them in and racks or chair backs
> to dry them on too. Choose a dry day. If it's too humid they won't dry
> well. This was one of those feasts when I did it all from baking all the
> bread myself, making all the salad dressings, all the desserts, cutting
> up all the chickens, deboning the lamb, etc. I was younger then.
>
> Johnnae llyn Lewis
>
> david friedman wrote:
> > It isn't all that much trouble--it's one of our household standard
> > recipes. Doing it for a large feast would involve some work, but not
> > impossible amounts. For one recipe I suppose I spend fifteen or twenty
> > minutes rolling out and cutting.
> >
> > And it's very good.
>
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