Fresh Pasta Squares
- 1 cup cake flour (not self-rising)
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour plus additional for kneading
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 4 tablespoons water
- Special equipment: a pasta maker
- Blend all ingredients in a food processor until mixture just begins to form a ball.
- Knead dough on a lightly floured surface, incorporating only as much additional flour as necessary to keep dough from sticking, until smooth and elastic, 6 to 8 minutes.
- Wrap dough in plastic wrap and let stand 1 hour.
- Set smooth rollers of pasta machine at widest setting.
- Cut dough into 4 pieces and keep 3 pieces covered.
- Flatten unwrapped piece of dough into a rectangle and feed through rollers.
- Fold rectangle in half and feed through rollers 8 more times, folding in half each time and dusting with flour as necessary to prevent sticking.
- Turn dial to next (narrower) setting and feed dough through without folding.
- Continue to feed dough through without folding, making space between rollers narrower each time, until narrowest setting is used.
- Cut rolled-out dough into 31/2-inch squares.
- Gather trimmings into a ball and wrap in plastic wrap.
- Transfer squares to a wax-paper-lined baking sheet and cover with plastic wrap.
- Roll out and cut remaining dough in same manner, then repeat with trimmings.
cake flour, allpurpose, salt, egg yolks, extravirgin olive oil, water, pasta maker
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/fresh-pasta-squares-106291 (may not work)