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MACARONI
MAKARNA.
Macaroni is not originally an Oriental dish, but it is used there, or rather in
large cities of the Orient, quite extensively.
Still, this farinaceous preparation is replaced by the Orientals with a
preparation of similar character, called Shehri, which is none other than the
well-known noodles.
The Oriental noodles (Shehri) is composed of pure wheat flour and eggs--(3 to 4
eggs for each pound of flour)--made into a very stiff paste with plain water.
This paste is shaped into small cakes, and opened flat with the aid of a roller,
into 12 to 15 inches in diameter, one-eighth of an inch or less in thickness.
When nearly dry, these are piled 5 to 6 deep and cut with a sharp knife into 2
to 2 1/2 inch lenghts and about one-eighth of an inch wide. When all the dried
batter is thus chopped, it is spread over metal trays and dried further in the
sun. Later the trays are placed in a
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