Thread: How do you dry your homemade noodles

"pamjd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?

Have you considered freezing them between sheets of parchment/wax
paper/plastic wrap?

I tried drying homemade pasta once and it got moldy very quickly.

"pamjd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?

Dust them with flour and freeze them. I do this with fresh pasta all the
time.

Eve

On Thu 23 Oct 2008 05:13:09p, pamjd told us...

> I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?

Actually, freezing them on cookie sheets after a good dusting of flour works
well, then sealing them in plastic wrap or baggies.

If you really want to dry them, my grandmother used to hang them over the
rods of a folding wooden clothes drying rack.

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pamjd wrote:
>
> I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?


On a tea towel on the dining room table, excess on a towel-covered
broomstick.

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Thu 23 Oct 2008 05:13:09p, pamjd told us...
>
>
>>I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
>>usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
>>make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
>>do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?
>
>
> Actually, freezing them on cookie sheets after a good dusting of flour works
> well, then sealing them in plastic wrap or baggies.
>
> If you really want to dry them, my grandmother used to hang them over the
> rods of a folding wooden clothes drying rack.
>
A broom stick laid atop two chair backs works also..
--
JL

Arri London wrote:
>
> pamjd wrote:
>> I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
>> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
>> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
>> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?
>
>
> On a tea towel on the dining room table, excess on a towel-covered
> broomstick.

Yes, this is how my grandmother did hers. In the kitchen though, lol.

"pamjd" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
>I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?

I hang them n my bottle drying rack. Before I had that I used to hang them
over a clean dowel/broomstick between two chairs.

"Giusi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "pamjd" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
>>I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
>> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
>> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
>> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?
>
> I hang them n my bottle drying rack. Before I had that I used to hang
> them over a clean dowel/broomstick between two chairs.

I have pets (cats and dogs) so I hang them on towel-covered wire hangers in
the laundry room - window open to facilitate drying. Works fine.

TammyM

pamjd wrote:
> I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?


Hey Pam! I've never made noodles but I toured a vermacelli factory in
Thailand, once. Stinky smelly stuff! They hung the noodles on
clotheslines. I'm not kidding.

Jill

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pamjd <[email protected]> wrote:

> I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?

Pam, I make nearly a year's worth of noodles for our consumption every
December-January. January weather here sucks rope.

I use a pasta machine for rolling and cutting. I mix the dough in a
food processor: Flour, egg, salt, water; adding the water after
processing the other three together until of a rather sandy consistency.
One egg to one cup flour, I think. Only enough water so that the
mixture will hold together when pressed. Letting it rest for a couple
hours is a must.

The dough is *very* stiff.

I cut small pieces, roll them and cut them. Because the dough is so
stiff the noodles don't stick together when cut. I dry them (I'm
writing about narrow [maybe 1/16" wide] noodles) on wire cooling racks
or an oven rack on which I've placed either paper toweling or a cotton
dishtowel. Then I set them in front of and on my heat registers. They
dry overnight very nicely. I store them in a glass jar in the cupboard.

On the rare occasion when I make wide (1/4") noodles, I spread them on
the toweling in the same fashion and maybe toss them a bit with my
fingers to discourage any sticking.

HTH.

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-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
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On the Road Again - It is Finished

jmcquown wrote:
> pamjd wrote:
>> I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
>> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
>> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
>> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?
>
>
> Hey Pam! I've never made noodles but I toured a vermacelli factory in
> Thailand, once. Stinky smelly stuff! They hung the noodles on
> clotheslines. I'm not kidding.
>
> Jill

Sure.

Goomba wrote:
>
> Arri London wrote:
> >
> > pamjd wrote:
> >> I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
> >> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
> >> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
> >> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?
> >
> >
> > On a tea towel on the dining room table, excess on a towel-covered
> > broomstick.
>
> Yes, this is how my grandmother did hers. In the kitchen though, lol.

It's one room in this house; open plan.

On Oct 24, 7:36 pm, DK <intrcep...@111gmail.com> wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
> > pamjd wrote:
> >> I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
> >> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
> >> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
> >> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?
>
> > Hey Pam! I've never made noodles but I toured a vermacelli factory in
> > Thailand, once. Stinky smelly stuff! They hung the noodles on
> > clotheslines. I'm not kidding.
>
> > Jill
>
> Sure.

I'm a big fan of DIY, and I remember my grandmother making noodles,
and I like the homey touch of noodles over broomsticks over chairs (a
girlfriend's Armenian g'ma used to do basterma this way), but this
seems like way too much trouble. Even the expensive store-bought
pasta is cheap. Why do I want to do this?

bulka

bulka wrote:
>
> On Oct 24, 7:36 pm, DK <intrcep...@111gmail.com> wrote:
> > jmcquown wrote:
> > > pamjd wrote:
> > >> I make a kettle of soup a couple times a week in fall and winter. I
> > >> usually make enough noodles for two batches of soup. I would like to
> > >> make enough noodles for a few weeks worth of soup at one time. How
> > >> do you all dry big batches of homemade noodles?
> >
> > > Hey Pam! I've never made noodles but I toured a vermacelli factory in
> > > Thailand, once. Stinky smelly stuff! They hung the noodles on
> > > clotheslines. I'm not kidding.
> >
> > > Jill
> >
> > Sure.
>
> I'm a big fan of DIY, and I remember my grandmother making noodles,
> and I like the homey touch of noodles over broomsticks over chairs (a
> girlfriend's Armenian g'ma used to do basterma this way), but this
> seems like way too much trouble. Even the expensive store-bought
> pasta is cheap. Why do I want to do this?
>
> bulka


Because homemade pasta tastes much better than store-bought and is
cheaper over all.