Fresh Pasta
- 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
- 1/4 cup water
- Special equipment: a pasta machine
- Blend all ingredients in a food processor until mixture 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 on widest setting.
- Cut dough into 4 pieces.
- Cover 3 pieces with plastic wrap, then form remaining piece into a rectangle and feed through rollers.
- Fold rectangle in half and feed, folded end first, through rollers 8 more times, folding in half each time and dusting with flour if necessary to prevent sticking.
- Turn dial to next (narrower) setting and feed dough through without folding.
- Catch pasta sheet with your hand as it feeds through rollers instead of letting it crumple at base of machine.
- Continue to feed through without folding, making space between rollers narrower each time and dusting with flour if it begins to stick, until second narrowest setting is reached.
- Lay pasta sheet on a floured surface and cut into 2 (6- by 4-inch) rectangles.
- Roll out and cut remaining 3 pieces of dough in same manner to form a total of 8 pasta squares.
cake flour, allpurpose, salt, egg yolks, extravirgin olive oil, water, pasta machine
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/fresh-pasta-107835 (may not work)