Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

  • About

When instructions on how to cook nursery favourites proves elusive, a good starting point is an older edition of Mrs Beeton’s Cookery and Household Management. And who can resist a cook book the index of which, under E, lists both ‘earache’ and ‘earwigs’ before ‘Eastertide biscuits’?

Ingredients

  • 115 g/ 4 oz macaroni
  • salt
  • 850 ml/

Method

Cook the macaroni in rapidly boiling salted water until just tender, following the packet instructions for timing.

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/ gas 4. Drain the macaroni and transfer to another saucepan. Pour over the milk, bring to the boil, lower the heat and simmer gentl