The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-06-17

Spaghetti Made in United States and
SHIPPED to italy for Sale

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Shipped to Italy for Sale
New York Tribune: 1t will be 4 Sc
we're stab to the pride of Italy to learn
that the Americans are now manufac-
turing macaroni, and are actually send
ing some abroad. Factories for the
making of macaroni are running in
Philadelphia, and the owners are stead
lily ~encroaching on the business of the
importers until it seems only a question
of time when the macaroui used in this
country will be made entirely of Amer
lean wheat, in American factories by
American workmen. 1t is all a question
or wheat. AT II time 1t was thought
impossible to max good macaroni from
any wheat other han that grown at
ODESSA and Taranog, but now Italy and
Genoa nave to share the profits of the
business With the macaroni makers OF
Marseilles, in France. With America
cutting into the race for wealth by the
macaroni route, h national industry
of Italy will be still further ~encroached
upon.
The process of manufacturing maca-
Toni in the Quaker city is the same as
that In Europe. Only the hard wheat,
which contains a large percentage Of
gluten. is used. The wheat is first
ground into a coarse meal, from which
the bran is removed. Great care has to
be exercised during the grinding to
keep the temperature of the room at
the right point, both heat and humid
ity being employed to insure the re-
suit being satisfactory. The substance
formed by the grinding process, called
semola, is then worked up into a dough
with water, and Tor macaroni m YER
mlcelli is forced through gauges, with
or without mandrelS, as in wire and
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1t is rolled out in very thin sheets,
from which are stamped out the vari-
Gus forms of stars, rings. etc. There
is little difference between macaroni
and the fine. threadlike vernicelli and
the Infinite variety OF curious and ele-
giant little forms which. under the
name OF Italian pastes, are used for
soups.
Macaroni cannot be made every day
In the year, or month, or week. 1t must
be a dry day, or the substance from
which 1t is made will not bind proper
~. Good breaks with a brit
tie sound like glass. When boiled 1t
swells with an even swell and does not
come apart. The inferior kind will often
break of Its own weight, n will burst
in the boiling. A visit to a macaroni
factory is Of interest as disclosing an
industry entirely novel to American
eyes. The rooms through which the
factory proper Is reached are hung
from floors to ceiling with festoons of
the macaroni drying. 1t is everywhere,
strung V e parallel poles, hanging
from every piece on the wall where a
e a be placed. stretched in door,
aside to allow the visitor to pass
through, and frequently strung out to
dry on the roof and in the yard for
want of room elsewhere.
The process of it's manufacture Is
worth watching. IN a huge bowl in the
center of the room. a bowl large enough
for half a dozen men to coil up in, the
dough is placed, a big stone coming
down on this and flattening it to the
strips like piecrust, doubled over, and
the big stone brushes it again until the
proper elasticity is produced. Then it
is turned into the gauges and forced
through the holes in the bottom, plung-
ers coming down on it during the proc
ess, and SO giving 1t The hollow form
familiar to lovers of the delicacy. 1t
reaches its f1nal stage. ready for the
drying, In the form of a hairpin, n in
this shape is hung up. II it is good
macaroni 1t will not break while dry
ing, but will hang in the hairpin form
suspended by the ben part until it is
dry.
All varieties of macaroni are made in
the same way, and, whether it is sold
as yermicelli, spaghetti or just plain
macaroni, it is manufactured from the
same wheat, deprived of it's s%tarchiness
and allowed to retain only it's glutinous
properties. In this form it has been
called "one Of the sever dellcacies OF
the world" and in the estimation of the
Italians at least, doubtless deserves
thai description.