Spaghetti Macaroni Recipe

(Pasta Asciutta)



The Italians serve the spaghetti or macaroni at the beginning of the

meal, in place of soup, and they give it the name of Minestra Asciutta

or "dry" soup. Besides the familiar spaghetti, the paste is served in

many other forms and with different seasoning. This is by far the most

popular Italian dish, and it seems to have pleased the taste of all the

peoples of the earth. The highly nutritive qualities of spaghetti and of

cheese, their indispensable condiment, have been recognized by all diet

authorities and, as for its palatableness, the lovers of spaghetti are

just as enthusiastic and numerous outside of Italy as within the

boundaries of that blessed country. The most popular seasoning for

spaghetti, are tomato sauce, brown stock and anchovy sauce. The

description of these three condiments follows:

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