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Pasatini Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • **Keep in mind that this is a recipe for just the bread noodles. For stock, put a chicken in a pot and simmer it forever and then a little longer.
  • Combine all ingredients well.
  • The "dough" will be heavy.
  • Shape the dough into 3 or 4 logs.
  • Let logs sit for about 2 hours.
  • Cut logs into 2 to 3" pieces.
  • Put pieces through a meat grinder (noodles will look like worms!).
  • Cut the noodles when they reach about 1 1/2 to 2" long.
  • Separate the noodles to dry on a clean, dry surface.
  • Allow to dry for about 90 minutes OR until noodles are very dry..
  • **Bring your rich stock to a simmer, add the pasatini and allow to cook for at least 30 minutes.
  • **My job was always separating the noodles for drying. It was a chance for the "kid" to spend some "alone" time with her dad.
  • **When my arthritis got too bad to do this by hand, I tried combining the ingredients in the food processor. It does work!

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  • jjjorgensen 11 years ago
    My husband uses a cookie press with the star opening to make the noodles. It works perfectly. Just be sure the noodle mixture is the consistancy of Play dough. His grandparents were from Italy and his grandfather made his grandmother a basement drain grate with two handles on it to make the noodles. (from the plumbing store, not the basement floor)
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    lori4flavor ate it and said...
    This sounds great, especially the combination of the lemon and parmesan! I think I will need to see if I can find a meat grinder. The only alternatives to the meat grinder that I can think of, other than a pasta maker, is that of a spaetzle maker or a potato ricer, but they may make the noodles too short/fine. Thank you for sharing this marvelous passed down recipe! ^5
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  • lacrenshaw 15 years ago
    Oh, julia! It is such a good soup. My dad put so much love into everything he cooked but this? this was so very special to him. I was wondering what Ed would think of it the first time he tried it and it was love at first bite! I was so happy. We really don't make this all that often but when we do I try to pack a lot of love into it just like my dad. We always try to do a batch for Christmas. There are only the two of us so that makes a somewhat smaller batch just fine. I have been thinking of an alternative to the meat grinder. If you have a pasta machine that might work if you could get a large enough diameter noodle out of it. It would be too hard on your hands to do them manually, I think. Plus it would take forever to make enough noodles for a bowl of soup. I'll keep thinking about this problem and see if I can't come up with some alternative. Oh! Ed says we used to dry the pasatini for at least an 1 1/2 hours. I'll need to change that. Thanks for your five, julia.
    Lorraine
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    juels ate it and said...
    Wow, this looks so cool! Too bad I don't have a meat grinder, I'd me making this tonight! Maybe I can just chop them, or squeeze through a pastry bag.
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