make and dry pasta?

LolaLemon

Can anyone help me, I'm looking for an easy pasta recipe to make shapes (stars and trees) that I can dry out and jar up as little Christmas gifts.
All hints tips recipes and links are greatly appreciated.

I have done a search that brought up nothing... and looked through the cooking stickies



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Butterfly_Brain

This might help http://step-by-step-cook.co.uk/sidedishes/pasta/

katkins78

I just use 1 lrge egg per 100g of flour for pasta, I've never heard or thought of making decorations with it- although you can make them with salt dough so why not!

Just had a google and thought these were rather sweet although made with bought rather than HM pasta!
http://www.free-homemade-gift-ideas.com/simple-homemade-christmas-ornaments.html

And some decorations in salt dough
http://www.makeitandmendit.com/2009/10/19/how-to-make-salt-dough-christmas-decorations/

I think homemade decorations are a lovely gift btw

LolaLemon

Thank you very much
All sites have been bookmarked

We already do salt dough decorations , son gets excited when we make them.

I'm hoping to do the pasta to add to hampers, or as a similar idea to the snowman soup type things, put in nice jar, add an recipe tag for something easy like a cheesy pasta or how to add to soups to make Christmas soup.


To dry it out, do I just leave it out to dry or put in the oven like salt dough?

katkins78

I would air dry on a floured board