Ingredients. - Half a pound of macaroni. Salt and pepper. One pint of stock.

Time required, about forty minutes.

To Stew Macaroni:

1. Take half a pound of macaroni, wash it, and put it in a saucepan, with plenty of cold water and a dessertspoonful of salt.

2. Put the saucepan on the fire, bring it to the boil, and let it boil gently for ten minutes.

3. After that time, put the macaroni into a colander, take it to the tap, and turn some cold water on it.

4. Now let the macaroni drain in the colander.

5. Then turn it on a board and cut it up in pieces.

6. Put one pint of stock into a saucepan.

7. Put the macaroni into the stock, and season it with pepper and salt according to taste.

8. Put the saucepan on the fire, just bring it to the boil, and then move the saucepan to the side of the fire, and let it simmer gently for twenty minutes.

N. B. - The lid should be on the saucepan.

9. For serving, turn the macaroni out on a hot dish.