Tagliarini Recipe

Ingredients

• 6 ripe tomatoes, or 1/2 can
• 1 can button mushrooms
• 10 dried red chilis
• 1 qt. Soup stock
• 10 pieces of celery
• 1 cup beef or chicken gravy
• 10 pieces of parsley
• 1 cup cheese cut fine
• 2 onions cup cheese grated
• 2 bay leaves
• salt
• pepper
• and a little spice

Methods/steps

Plunge spaghetti into a kettle of boiling water; after ten minutes drain and rinse with cold water. Put on to cook in enough cold water to cover, and set kettle in a larger kettle of boiling water. Add the soup stock, gravy, button and dried mushrooms and their liquors, and the chile pepper pulp. Add bay leaves, celery, onions, tomatoes, parsley and spice, tied up in a piece of cheese clotn. Boil slowly for three hours, tightly covered, adding a little hot water when necessary, and stirring very little. Ten minutes before .serving stir in cut cheese. Pour into large deep platter, and sprinkle with the grated cheese. Be careful to have enough gravy and to remove spice bag before adding cheese. Prepare dried mushrooms by washing and soaking one hour in warm water. Drain and rinse, and soak over night. This liquor should be used.