Noun
Macaroni.
Usage- plural
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Large kettles stand full of dressed maccheroni, with cheese scattered over it, and decorated with small pieces of love apple.
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Part of the supper, consisting of boiled and fried fish; French beans, and different kinds of fried vegetables, was quickly served; fried light pastes and a dish of maccheroni with cheese, were afterwards brought in.
The whole of the next morning was taken up in kneading the paste for making the maccheroni; […]
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In the kind of eating-house that suited his mood, an obscure bettola probably never yet patronized by Englishman, he sat down to a dish of maccheroni and a bottle of red wine.
When the maccheroni are dried (twelve hours of exposure are usually sufficient) they are ready to be packed and shipped.
When Mariannina has sent us in a particularly nice and generous dish of maccheroni garnished with a few pieces of meat, she does not always serve the companatico, but keeps it for the evening meal, and boasts of her economy.
The maccheroni are of course excellent, but most foreigners cannot live on maccheroni alone.
It didn’t take long for him to choose his table; for, sitting alone in a quiet part of the room, Colonel George Crimmins was eating maccheroni like a Neapolitan!
During this time cook the maccheroni in salted water, drain when “al dente” and tip into the oven-dish containing the baked tomatoes, stir gently but thoroughly and bake for 5 minutes.
In his book The Ten Pains of Death, Gavin Maxwell tells how only the mother may knead the flour, salt, water, and oil for homemade maccheroni, using a special board for making pasta and bread.
In 1835, however, while he was touring Campania, Alexandre Dumas wrote that the common people, the so-called lazzaroni, were living mainly on melons and pizzas, and he went on “Today maccheroni is a European food which has travelled like civilisation, and is to be found everywhere.”
Drop the maccheroni into the water and boil vigorously, stirring often, 12 to 15 minutes or until tender but still pleasingly firm to the bite.
The woman who is less poor gives her neighbor the water in which her maccheroni was cooked, a whitish liquid that is spilled onto morsels of bread, making them softer and giving them at least a flavor of maccheroni.
When they are cooked, place in a plate, having first grated hard rather than fresh provatura cheese, canella well pounded and sugar however much will seem convenient, everything incorporate together so that the maccheroni is covered in cheese, after which fill the plates.
Cook the maccheroni in salted boiling water until al dente.
[Summary of the visual subject] a dish of maccheroni and a waiter serving it
Add more gravy and toss until all the maccheroni are coated.