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#Mac and cheese with evaporated milk eggs door cream mac

W: What are you trying to do? See yourself?ĪB: No.

But its proudest moment came in the sixties when it was chosen as the window material for the Apollo It wasĬonverted into bakeware about 1915. Now this is a heat resistant glass which was originally developed for use in railroad lanterns. But, I'm proud to say that my personal favorite casserole materials were born right here in the good oleįor instance: Pyrex. In Europe they're almost always made out of earthenware, terracotta, The traditional casserole vessel of choice is called-get this-casserole. In fact, that it usually burns the sides and bottom of the casserole before the rest of it has time to heat through. But truth is I'm not a real big fan of metal for casseroles because metal is such a great conductor of heat.

Now a casserole can be baked in almost anything that's wide and low. Since it is an amalgam of ingredients, mixed, baked and served in a single vessel, macaroni and cheese qualifies as a casserole. SCENE 3īed, Bath & Beyond: Atlanta, GA - 2:09 pm Oh, and watch out for this pot, will ya?ĪB: I've got a date with a real dish. You just keep tearing through those texts for truthĪnd I'll be back in a few minutes. You've got to keep your eye on the, on the bigger, more marketable picture, okay? You know what? For your presentation we ought to dress you up like Thomas Jefferson.ĮLTON: You want me to go to school wearing stockings and a bow in my hair? Think of the emotional scarring.ĪB: Hmm. Jefferson didn't visit Italy until 1807 so macaroni and cheese couldn't be a comfort food for the fathers at the time they were founding.ĪB: Boy, you're getting bogged down in details.

#Mac and cheese with evaporated milk eggs door cream mac

The result, well, Jefferson finally had his comfort food.ĪB: From that day on, they had honest-to-goodness mac and cheese at Monticello.

Once he had a prototype, his cook made up the noodles, boiled them, added a cheese sauce, tossed in some New York cheddar and baked the whole thing Now true foodie that he was, Jefferson set aside all matters of state and settled in to design a macaroni extruder of his own. And worst of all, he'd sent off to Italy for a tube pasta maker but instead received a The newĭome he had designed for Monticello was leaking. Rewrites on the Declaration of Independence were getting him down. Now like the rest of the founding fathers, Jefferson lived during some pretty tense times. The hand of, well, power-crazed chefs over the last few years, it really is an art form and it's loaded with history. SCENE 2ĪB: Elton, I really think we're on to something with this macaroni and cheese business because despite its decline at Mom told me I had to say this: goodĪB: Yeah. You combine history with some really good ingredients and someĮLTON: Oh, yeah. Let's try that one again, okay? I'm going to give you a differentĬue. You cook it in the same pot you serve it in. It's a great testament to Yankee ingenuity because You've got, you've got curds and noodles, you've gotĬreamy and crunchy, you've got all this contrast. It is a symbol of the great nation that this country became.ĪB: Well, sure. Know, which is kind of important because, well, you know what? It's a symbol. it was the original American comfort food, you You've heard of that guy, right?ĪB: And what's more, macaroni and cheese is kind of the. Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson. you know, macaroni and cheese-if I remember correctly-was actually invented at the kitchens at Monticello. It's kind of complicated.ĮLTON: So what does that have to do with the founding fathers?ĪB: Well, Elton my boy, that's a good question. You see, Macaroni was kind of the name of this fancy shmancy dress-up club in London at the time. The implication was is that we were so clueless and unsophisticated that we would stick a feather in our hat and think we were all dressed up. Stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni.ĪB: Well, the song was written by the British to ridicule the Colonists. You know George Washington, the Continental Congress, the Yankee Doodle.ĪB: Yeah. What's the topic?ĮLTON: The founding fathers.

And everyone liked me because they got to eat my project.ĪB: Well, we certainly can't have your mom out-doing me and we can't have her messing up your education, either. I haven't even started on it yet.ĪB: Oh, yeah? Well, you know your ole Uncle Alton's pretty good at school projects.ĪB: Oh, yeah? Well, what would my dear sister do if she were here?ĮLTON: Well, last month for geography class she made cookies from all around the world. I've got this school project to finish by Monday. Does that sound like fun?ĮLTON: I don't know, Uncle Alton. You know if we got time, weĬould even smoke a couple. I thought while you're here maybe we could catch a