MAKIN' NOODLES

Twice a year our church gets out all the equipment to make noodles from scratch for our Dinner Day which happens on the second Wednesday of April and October. These fundraiser days enable us to do extra necessary things for our church and parsonage.

A few posts back, entitled "Noodles", I said I would show the process of making noodles....

We usually make noodles in a one week stretch. For 4 mornings and 4 evenings, groups of people show up in our church kitchen and work through the process.

We will go through 100-110 DOZEN EGGS...
Each batch takes 1 cup= approximately 4 eggs...
We ask each family to donate 2 dozen eggs and 10 lbs. of flour...

It all begins in the mixing.... one person usually mixes.




Then the women on the right of the picture will kneed the dough and form it into flat balls.

The women, on the left of this picture, take those flat pieces and run them through a noodle maker, thinning them out into strips of very thin dough.





This takes a few times, at a few different settings to get them the right thickness.




Then the tray of strips are passed on to the next station.


After these two cut the final noodles,,,,,,
This person takes a tray full of just-cut noodles and spreads them out on tables covered with paper.

When these beauties are all dry, we bag them up and freeze them for either cooking on Dinner Day or selling at our Country Store that same day. We make thin and wide noodles.

The thin ones are the ones I cook on Dinner Day.

We have no trouble getting rid of them and have many, many people order them ahead of time.

FRESH HOMEMADE NOODLES..... YUMMMMM.... JUST LIKE GRANDMA USED TO MAKE...