Homemade Illinois noodles
February 5th, 2008I love to find new receipts from different cultures. During my Illinois travel I found an area where the Amish live. If you want some wonderful down to earth cooking, I would suggest you visit there. The Amish don’t believe in using modern appliances so most all of their cooking is done the old way. They don’t see time as a factor, fast food for them is eating an apple right off the tree. Their homemade noodles are better than any factory produced product and they contain no preservatives. Thus they are very good for low sodium diets. I got to help make a batch once and it was quite an experience. The receipt is quite simple, just flour, egg yolks, and water. There is a large table where they make a pile of flour and then dig a well in the middle. In that well they place the eggs and slowly start mixing the inside of the flour pile with the eggs. Once that is all mixed they slowly add water, a tablespoon at a time until the proper consistency is obtained. Then the dough is kneaded until elastic and rolled out to paper thin. It’s cut into strips and placed on towels to dry.