From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!mitccc!enid Newsgroups: net.cooks Title: pasta flour Article-I.D.: mitccc.434 Posted: Tue Mar 8 23:25:09 1983 Received: Thu Mar 10 01:11:55 1983 For those of us in netland who want to make our own pasta at home, there is Robin Hood Pasta Flour. It sells at roughly $2/5lbs. bag at supermarkets. It's a little much but it seems worth it. I haven't yet tried it, the Joy of Cooking cautions first time pasta- makers not to try it when the weather is humid. I gather it may have problems binding properly. Why haven't I tried it? It's been a week since I bought the flour and we've had a week of solid rain or threatening rain. I don't dare. The company has an offer for a hand-cranked pasta maker that's around $30, it looks like the one my parents have and if by chance it is the same one it would be a good machine to have. Has anyone gotten this one yet? Has anyone tried the flour yet? The next dry day I will make pasta. The directions are somewhat humourous: they state that for an electric machine you should ``follow the directions given with the machine'' but use THEIR flour. Ahem. Everybody knows that each company markets its machine so that you'll buy their flour and not someone else's. Good try, Robin. -enid@mitccc