Thursday, May 30, 2013

a new idea.

This week I taught my gradson Levi, how to make bread,  that morning he made 5 loaves and I made another batch of bread of 5 loaves.... of course the cooks get to take some of the dough and cut it into 4x5 inch shapes... stretch it out and fry it in oil and enjoy it with peach jam....
      So I heard from a grandaughter, melissa,   how do I make noodles?   Then came the idea...
put some of the old recipes going back to homemade days...  and posting them on my blog site. so here it goes.  let me know if they make sense...

home made noodles

3 eggs beaten     
1/2 teaspoon salt
begin adding flour   1 cup at a time   until dough is well mixed and   the dough is fairly stiff.
place on floured surface and knead until the dough is shiney and elastic.
let rest for 10 min.   then divide the dough into 3 parts.. keep the ones you are not rolling our covered with a towel.
 with a rolling pin roll each  gob of dough until it is thin...(dont be discouraged about this process- it takes a bit of time ..work from the center to the edges..... when as thim as you desire.... coat with a thin layer of flour and roll the dough up as if it was a cinnamon roll.  tthen let it set while you roll out the other gobs of dough..     After all are rolled up cut the dough as if for tiny cinnamon roll (that will be the thickness of thenoodle.)  cut and unroll out and let them set while you finish the rest of the noodles... and   abra cadabra you have home made noodles !!!    
  if the dough is sticky.. use more flour... 
kneading dough is a good skill to help build muscles....all I can sat to describe  the act of kneading is you have the dough on a floured surface and you use the back of your palm of the hand and push and stretch the back side of the dough  forward and then fold it back into the gob and just keep going around until the dough is not sticky and  is shiney.... it is a labor of love and is worht it...

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