Homemade Pasta Question

"grossbea" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I'm very new here.

I make homemade pasta - almost never buy dried. Recipes usually call for
a specific amount of pasta, vs. sauce. That is to say, a recipe will make
a certain amount of sauce, then say, for instance, "pour over 1/2 pound of
pasta". When I use homemade, I never seem to get the amount of pasta vs
sauce correct. I know I could make up a huge pot of sauce, then use as
much or as little as I want. But I'd like to be able to judge how much
pasta to make when a recipe calls for a certain measure of dried - we
don't like leftover pasta so I want to get it as close as possible.

When I make pasta, I measure it out in cups of flour. I know how many
cups to use when making pasta for 2, or 4, etc. Can anyone tell me, or
point me in the right direction to find out what that equivalency is to
dried? Is 1/2 pound dried linguine, say, equivalent to making a 1 cup
homemade recipe?

I will be very grateful for any help.

AG in Maryland

Here's how you can do it.

If you are making spaghetti, or whatever type of pasta you are making or
make most frequently, buy some dried, see how many it says it serves, cook
it, measure it after it's been cooked, use a measured amount of sauce.
Then make some of your own pasta, cook it and measure how much you have, use
a measured amount of sauce.
You will become the expert. You probably already are, not many make their
own pasta.

I love left-over dried pasta. I don't think you will be disappointed in
using up your dried pasta that you experimented with.
Dee Dee

grossbea said:

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I'm very new here.

I make homemade pasta - almost never buy dried. Recipes usually call for a
specific amount of pasta, vs. sauce. That is to say, a recipe will make a
certain amount of sauce, then say, for instance, "pour over 1/2 pound of
pasta". When I use homemade, I never seem to get the amount of pasta vs
sauce correct. I know I could make up a huge pot of sauce, then use as much
or as little as I want. But I'd like to be able to judge how much pasta to
make when a recipe calls for a certain measure of dried - we don't like
leftover pasta so I want to get it as close as possible.

When I make pasta, I measure it out in cups of flour. I know how many cups
to use when making pasta for 2, or 4, etc. Can anyone tell me, or point me
in the right direction to find out what that equivalency is to dried? Is
1/2 pound dried linguine, say, equivalent to making a 1 cup homemade recipe?

I will be very grateful for any help.

AG in Maryland

Dried pasta has (virtually) no water. So I suspect the dry weight of the
flour you use would roughly be the same as the wight of dry pasta. If
you are using eggs in your pasta, you could weigh the egg + your flour
together. This methods isn't 100% accurate, but it should be close enough.