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Mackerel and Sea Fish (Fork because the contact)

fork, because the contact of steel imparts a bad taste, particularly if with a seasoning of tomatoes. For persons unaccustomed to eat their long Macaroni after the clever fashion of the Neapolitans, by twisting it round and round the fork, the advice not to cut it with a steel knife is especially needful.

Dressed Macaroni is a mixture of flour, cheese, and butter; and it therefore bears (as some say) the Italian name Macrhetone, a fool, or blockhead. This is after the same fashion of naming a clown, when taken as typical of his country, by a popular dish therein, such as English Jack Pudding, German Hanswürst, or Jack Sausage, or French Jean Farine, Jack Flour. The Macaroni of smaller size is called Vermicelli (little worms). An admixture of such a cereal food as Macaroni with cheese makes the latter more easy to be digested. Both Macaroni, and Vermicelli, are prepared in the greatest perfection at Naples, where they form a principal item in the food of the population. Spaghetti is an Italian Macaroni, made into cords smaller than that of Naples, and larger than Vermicelli.

To make a Macaroni and marmalade pudding, take a quarter of a pound of Macaroni, three eggs, three ounces of sugar, a very little spice of cinnamon, or nutmeg, with some orange or apricot marmalade. Boil the Macaroni till tender, drain away the water, pour over it a little milk, and allow it to cool. When cold, mix into it the eggs, sugar, and a tiny dust of the spice. Put a layer of the mixture in a pie dish, then a layer of the marmalade, and then the remainder of the Macaroni: and bake in the oven for fifteen or twenty minutes. The Macaroni should be gently boiled for one hour. Macaroni, and other sorts of Italian paste, contain only about 9 per cent of nitrogenous substances; if a healthy, well-fed man were to live exclusively on Macaroni, he would lose weight, because having to subsidize proteids from his own resources; but an addition to the Macaroni of eggs, or meat, would prevent this deficiency.