Show MACARONI MACARONI an italian dish lily A amerl in canizer ilow toj to cook ok it I 1 IN Y W ail and express espi cas I 1 while macaroni Is i s the national diet of italy it has become completely americanized said a prominent italian restaurateur to a M mail ail and and express s reporter our american ican patro patronage n a is constantly t y i increasing n which 11 b i h shows sh th the stan growing r 0 wi n g taste for our food excepting 0 our ur pure native wines wines macaroni appears to be the most favored by our american epicures epi cures in fact all the english speaking people in new york are taking lovingly to this whole wholesome s ome a and n d ilip slippery pery diet do you know how it is made nol no I 1 well lvell I 1 will tell you macaroni vermicelli or little worms tallia rini etc are the products of flour from the best quality of wheat macaroni differs dif fiers from vermicelli only in sizo aizo tho latter being made in in smaller tubes both aro are prepared in the greatest perfection at naples and are tho ilia principal food of the great body of tho the people there macaro la caroni ni is to the italian what tho tile fig and the date are to the inhabit tants of the levant and what rice is to the asiatic the hard wheat flour imported from tho the black sea is iho the best suited for tho the manufacture of macaroni in acaron none of it ever reaches this co country antry except it is imported by private parties for home consumption the flour is mixed with water frequently washed in mountain streams then ground in water mills and hot water is added until it becomes dough it is forced by pr pressure M tire through a number of small holes oi or tubes and then cut at the desired length tho the largest tubes aro are called macaroni next vermicelli and the next fe delini arini is mado made pretty much on tho the same plan only that it is long narrow and flat and when served looks something like a wrecked spiderweb spider web vermicelli Ir means little worms and when in in soup one would come to that cons con elusion without knowing the literal meaning of tho the word spaghetti is another species of the same mud of food chopp cd into small round sections italian paste you know is uselin puddings no not i ip ter cent restaurants it is those little things you you aco in the shape of stars hearts crowns and letters of tho the alphabet cad while eating your pudding pud din or soup you can refresh your memory in in the alphabet or study astronomy or anatomy at naples 3 ica the preparation of machroni mad ironi and 1 its species is best understood nothing IS is used except flour and puro pure wat water er the best being made of flour of hard wheat the most inferior for tho the peasants is made of f flour of soft wheat tho the macaroni used by the poor is merely boiled in water and not often washed and ground with that great caro care in making maki jg jhc thc article tho the lazzaroni aaront of our country have only one ambition to excel each other in swallowing the of macaroni without brea breaking king it |