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Basic Egg-pasta Recipe Recipe

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Step #1 Recipe by: Northern Italian Cooking Put flour on a pastry board and make a well in the center.
Step #2 Break the eggs into well; beat with a fork.
Step #3 Draw some flour from inner rim of well over eggs, beating constantly.
Step #4 Keep adding flour a little at a time until you have a soft dough.
Step #5 Put dough aside.
Step #6 With a pastry scraper, remove bits and pieces of dough attached to board.
Step #7 Lightly flour board & your hands.
Step #8 Knead dough 10 to 12 mins, adding flour a little at a time until dough is smooth & pliable.
Step #9 Insert a finger into center of dough.
Step #10 If it comes out almost dry, dough is ready for pasta machine.
Step #11 If dough is sticky, knead it a little longer adding more flour.
Step #12 Cut an egg-size piece from dough.
Step #13 Wrap remaining dough in a cloth towel to prevent it from drying.
Step #14 Set rollers of pasta machine at their widest setting.
Step #15 Flatten small piece of dough, dust with flour and fold in half.
Step #16 Run it through pasta machine.
Step #17 Repeat this step 5 to 8 times until dough is smooth & not sticky.
Step #18 Change notch of pasta machine to the next setting & run dough through once without folding.
Step #19 Keep changing setting & working pasta sheet through machine until pasta reaches desired thickness.
Step #20 A good thickness for general use is about 1/16 inch.
Step #21 Sprinkle top dough with flour between rollings if it is sticky.
Step #22 --.
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