Recipe - Basic Pasta Dough

3 cup Flour (up to 4)
4 Eggs
Salt
2 tablespoon Olive oil

to make about 1 One half pounds of pasta(From the Good Cook Pasta
bookTimeLife series)

Mound 3 cups of flour on smooth work surfacemake a well in the center of
the mound and break the eggs into the well. Add a big pinch of salt and the
olive oil. Slowly mix in the flour with the eggs by using the flour just
around the eggs without breaking down the sides of the well until enough
flour has been incorporated into the eggs to hold it all together. When all
the flour has been incorporated and the dough still feels sticky add more
flour, just a little bit at a time. The dough should feel stiff, but
malleable. I have also put the ingredients into a food processor and the
dough comes out just fine. The dough then can be kneaded by hand briefly
before either rolling out by hand or with a pasta machine. Wrap the pasta
in plastic wrap and let rest for about an hour. After the pasta has rested
roll/cut to desired size/shape and let dry on pasta rack or a broomstick
or........until brittle. The pasta can also be cooked directly without
being dried. If it is cooked before it is dried it takes very little time
to cook

Posted to FOODWINE Digest 29 Nov 96

From: Frank & Penny Coster penelope@SONIC.NET

Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:27:16 0800