Self-Sufficiency in Style
gadgets and gizmos
the pasta maker
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Self-Sufficiency in Style gadgets and gizmos the pasta maker
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The Pasta Maker does
exactly what it says - makes pasta. But it also makes very good pasta... and stores free range eggs for when the hens fail to lay. |
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The "Kenwood" food processor is used for two
operations:
preparing the mixture and moulding the pasta. It would be doing even more, if you are also grinding your own grain. Making pasta would be a difficult job to do by hand. |
The fresh eggs may well be the reason that it tastes so good. |
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The first process involves mixing flour (strong bread flour) a little salt
and the eggs until the consistency is that of bread crumbs.
It would be perfectly possible to do this by hand, but the food mixer is there and the attachment comes as standard with all models. The job takes less than a minute. |
| The mixture is spooned into the small hopper and, hey presto, pasta appears. |
The Pasta Maker is attached to the top on the food mixer |
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It need not just be spaghetti - a selection of "sieves" are supplied to make the whole range of pastas. |
At first glance, you have just made a range of very nice tasting pasta,
but you can also do something else very important.
By freezing the pasta, you are also using your own eggs when they are freely available against a time when the hens are "off the lay." You are doing much more than cooking or preparing. You are storing food too. It is well-neigh impossible to store eggs, but you can store some things made from eggs. |
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You can find out what the Ice Cream Maker can do, can go back to the Kenwood or you go on to think about a Bread-maker , if you wish, for that is one of the few food production tasks that you won't need the "Kenwood" to help along. |
Clean, neatly covered and ready for use. |
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Italian style at the insularly named Hangman's Cottage, just to the south of Misery Corner. |
