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Excerpt from Manufacture of Semolina and Macaroni As this is an elementary discussion of the matter, I venture to observe that our own homely dish of noodles could be traced back to the Italian macaroni. The difference between the two is that the mac. Aroni is manufactured from coarse hard-wheat flour, or semolina, in making which the manufacturer attempts to remove the outer husk and break up the grains so as to secure granules rounded and glazed instead of the impalpable powder of which ordinary flour consists. Macaroni (which I shall frequently use as a generic term covering all the manufactured products of semolina) is, strictly speaking, appli cable onlv to the long, hollow tubes of dry food paste. This paste consists merely of semolina and water kneaded together; and it is converted into hundreds of forms, sometimes inelegantly referred to in English as edible pastes, or in French as pates alimentaires. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.