Hand Pressed Pasta

Start the Water!

• Fill pasta pot ¾ full of water.
  
• Add a dash of salt.
  
• Leave it until ready to cook pasta.
  

Making the Dough

1. Pour a pile of 1½  cup flour onto the counter.
   
2. Make a well in the middle of the pile.
   
3. Crack two eggs and pour them into the middle.
   
4. Break the yolks and slowly mix in the flour with your hands.
   
5. Continue mixing until the flour and egg are a thoroughly mixed dough.
   

Making Fettuccine

1. Divide your dough approximately into quarters.
   
2. Dust it lightly with flour.
   
3. Roll into a ball and flatten.
   
4. Slowly feed it into the pasta maker on its lowest setting (zero).
   
5. Fold it in half and feed through again.
   
6. Change the setting to 1 and feed it through again.
   
7. Continue to move the settings up on the pasta maker
   
8. After the final setting, put the fettuccine setting on the machine.
   
9. Feed the dough through slowly.  
   

Making Cavatelli

1. Divide dough into long tubes about the diameter of your pinkie.
   
2. Cut into tubes about the length of your thumb.
   
3. Push your thumb into the tube and push forward and up to create the shape.
   
4. Dust all the cavatelli lightly with flour.
   

Cooking the Pasta

• Turn the heat for the pasta water up to high.
  
• Once it is boiling, add the pasta.
  
• Cook the pasta for 1-2 minutes- fresh pasta does not need long to cook!
  
• Pasta will rise to the top when it is ready.
  
• Serve with butter, parmesan and fresh ground pepper.
  

Optional:

• Heat some sauce to add to your pasta.