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