The Laurel Health Cookery: A Collection of Practical Suggestions and Recipes for the Preparation of Non-Flesh Foods in Palatable and Attractive Ways

Finish as No. 1. ½ cup rice _flour_, 1½ cup bread flour and ¾ cup barley grits may be used instead of the above combination. =Granella No. 3--rye, wheat and barley= ½ cup rye meal 2 cups bread flour 1 cup barley grits salt =Granella No. 4--rye, wheat and corn= ½ cup rye meal 2 cups bread flour 1-2 tablespns. corn meal salt water MACARONI (ITALIAN PASTE) Macaroni is one of the most important of cereal foods. The best--Italian--is made from a wheat rich in gluten, so to a great extent it supplies the place of meat. One of the first things we do when we go into a new place is to hunt up an Italian macaroni store, as that is the only place where the genuine article is to be found. That made in this country, put up with a foreign label on the package, is inferior. The Italian pastes come in a great variety of shapes and are named according to the shape. Macaroni, spaghetti and vermicelli are well known; then there are lasagne (broad and flat), rigatoni (large corrugated), da natali, ditali rigati, cannaroni rigati and reginnetti with mostacioli bianchi, soprafini (fine vermicelli), ditalini and acini di pepe--a few of the many. There are some small fine pastes put up in dainty boxes, especially for invalids, that are very delicate and digestible. Those who have visited macaroni factories in Italy where macaroni is made for exportation, say that everything in connection with the food is neat and clean and that the macaroni is dried in closed rooms entirely removed from the dust of the street. That which travellers see drying by the roadside, exposed to the dust, is from small or private factories for home consumption. To Cook Macaroni Do not wash or soak it. Break it when necessary and put into perfectly boiling salted water, 8 parts water to 1 of macaroni. Stir as soon as it is put into the water and often, until it begins to roll up, from the rapid boiling. Keep over a hot fire where it will continue to roll