First attempts at making pasta

[gemfyre]

The bread machine comes with one pasta recipe, and it doesn't involve eggs, just water. Pah to that I said, and found a few recipes, deciding on one that consisted of flour (I bought 00 flour for the purpose), eggs and a tad of oil.

Hah, bread machine didn't mix it all properly did it? So I turned it out and kneaded it myself for a bit and it felt awfully dry, so I got daring and added a smidge of water and then it stuck to itself a bit better.

Turning the dough into pasta was a million times easier (and tidier!) than I expected. Making pastry is hell but pasta is a cinch. I can see much fresh pasta in the future - and no more worrying if I have lasange sheets in the cupboard!

The pasta extruder I bought makes different thicknesses of flat pasta - but also has an attachment to make fettucine and spaghetti! It's made of awesome.

My fettucine for tonight looks great. Let's hope I cook it properly and it isn't like eating glue!

Comments

[marzipan9.livejournal.com]

my recipe is 2 cups flour, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/3 cup water, 2 eggs, and 1 tsp of oil.

mix the flour and salt and make a well in the center and set aside. beat together the eggs, water, and oil, then add to the flour and mix well.
use 1/3 cup of flour to well flour the kneading surface and knead until smooth and elastic (about 10 min), then cover for 10 min. cut into 4 equal parts and roll dough out about 1/16" (um, really thin in the metric system, lol), let stand for 20 minutes. then cut into thin strips or use the pasta cutter or whatever :)