Anne Willan

Nouilles à l’Alsacienne

Fresh Noodles with Butter

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
top 1000French Regional Cooking
French Regional Cooking

By Anne Willan

Published 1981

  • About

Home-made noodles are a rarity in France, except in Alsace and Lorraine. They are served as an accompaniment to meat, not as a first course.

Ingredients

300 g flour

Method

Make the noodles: sift the flour on to a board and make a well in the centre. Put the whole eggs, yolk and salt in the well and work in the flour with your fingertips, adding a little water, if needed, to make a smooth dough that is soft but not sticky. Lightly flour the working surface and knead the