Variations In Macaroni

Scalloped Onions with Macaroni Cooked onions Cooked macaroni

Mix recipe ingredients and add one-half cup milk and one-half cup grated mild cheese. Put in a buttered baking-dish, sprinkle with three-fourths cup buttered cracker crumbs, and bake until crumbs are brown.

Macaroni Croquettes Combine white sauce and onions and rub through sieve. Add macaroni cut in very small pieces, and spread on a plate to cool. Shape in form of croquettes, dip in crumbs, egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat, and drain on brown paper.

Onion Souffle Combine white sauce, onions and macaroni, and rub through a sieve. Add the yolks of three eggs beaten until thick and lemon color. Fold in the whites of three eggs beaten until stiff and dry. Turn into a buttered dish, set in a pan of hot water, and bake in a slow oven until firm.

Macaroni Sauce Soubise

1 pint onions 1/2 cup macaroni 1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup white sauce

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon paprika

Peel onions and cook in a small quantity of boiling water until tender; then drain. Break macaroni into inch pieces, cook-twenty minutes in two quarts of salted water. Drain in strainer, rinse to prevent pieces from adhering. For the white sauce melt three tablespoons butter, add three tablespoons flour, and stir until well blended; then pour on gradually, while stirring constantly, half cup milk; bring to the boiling point and season. Combine onions and white sauce, add half cup milk. Rub through sieve. Bring to boiling point. Pour over macaroni. Sprinkle with chopped parsley.

Macaroni With Mushroom Sauce

1 cup macaroni

1 cup cracker crumbs

1/2 cup milk

1 tablespoon melted butter

1 can mushrooms

1 tablespoon flour

1 tablespoon chopped pimentos 1 teaspoon minced onion 1 cup grated cheese Parsley (minced) Salt, pepper, garlic

Break macaroni into inch pieces and cook in boiling salted water twenty-five minutes. Drain in colander, pour cold water over it. Put butter, onion, garlic, one tablespoon of water in saucepan and simmer until onion is tender. Mix all ingredients together, put into flat pan lined well with greased paper. Bake forty minutes in moderate oven. Cut into squares and serve with mushroom sauce.

Macaroni Mold

4 ounces macaroni 1 cup bread crumbs 1 cup hot milk 4 tablespoons chopped nuts 1 tablespoon chopped parsley

1/2 teaspoon herbs

1 onion, chopped

2 tablespoons butter 2 eggs

Salt and pepper to taste

Break the macaroni in small pieces and boil until tender. Soak bread crumbs in milk five minutes; add the rest of the ingredients and steam for one hour.

Macaroni Squares

3 heaping cups cooked macaroni

2 cups milk

3 eggs

1 level teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons butter

1 tablespoon minced pimento Grated cheese

Beat eggs, add milk, mix in the macaroni, salt and pimento. Spread butter on an oblong shallow pan and pour in mixture. Bake in moderate oven thirty minutes. Five minutes before serving sprinkle grated cheese over top. Return to oven and brown. Cut in squares and serve on platter with tomato or mushroom sauce.