Macaroni and spaghetti are used as a vegetable, vermicelli for soups and puddings. They are made from flour and water and should be combined with sauces or cheese. Cheese is most palatable cooked or served with it, as it supplies the fat which the macaroni does not contain. Combined with cheese and sauce it makes a most nutritious dish, and should enter into our diet more extensively.

How To Cook Macaroni

If the macaroni or spaghetti is to be used for a garnish or timbales, do not break it, but place the long pieces carefully in boiling salted water. When to be used in other ways, break in inch pieces. Cook in boiling salted water till tender, drain in a colander and pour cold water over it. This prevents it from being sticky. Reheat in a white sauce and serve. Or put in a baking dish, cover with white sauce and a sprinkling of buttered crumbs on top. Brown in a hot oven.

Baked Macaroni With Cheese

Put into a baking dish a layer of cooked macaroni then a layer of white sauce, and grated or thinly sliced cheese with a sprinkling of salt and paprica. Fill up the dish in this way, having the cheese on top. Brown in a hot oven.

Macaroni With Tomato Or Other Sauces

Cook the macaroni as directed. Mix with the sauces and serve, or mix with the sauces with the addition of cheese and buttered crumbs and bake in the oven. Individual baking dishes may be used, as well as a large dish.

Macaroni And Eggs

Cover the bottom of a baking dish with a layer of cooked macaroni, then a layer of hard-cooked eggs, cut in thin slices. Cover with a white sauce and buttered crumbs, or grated cheese. Brown in a hot oven. This makes a very good luncheon dish, it being also most nutritious.

Baked Macaroni And Celery

Put in a baking dish a layer of cooked macaroni, a layer of cooked celery cut in small pieces, cover with a cream sauce, a grating of cheese, little paprica and so on until the dish is full, having the grated cheese on top. Bake in a hot oven for about twenty minutes.

Florentine Macaroni

Break macaroni in three- or four-inch pieces; cook till tender in boiling salted water, drain through a colander and place on a hot platter, sprinkle lightly with grated cheese and pass with it a tomato sauce.