Homemade Mac and Cheese

Home made Mac and Cheese

Ingredients

• 2.5 cups dry elbow macaroni noodles

• 3 tablespoons butter

• 2 tablespoons whole wheat flour

• 1/3 cup heavy cream

• 1/3 cup 2% milk

• 2 cups sharp cheddar cheese, freshly grated

• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt

• 1 x 8oz bag of croutons

• Cook macaroni noodles according to package instructions, drain, and set aside

  Next step is called making a "Roux" if you try to put flour or corn starch into a thin liquid it will clump.

• In the same pot you cooked the noodles in, melt butter (make sure heat is on low)

• Add flour and whisk quickly to combine with flour, making sure not to burn (remove from heat if necessary)

Directions:

• Add heavy cream and milk and whisk mixture on medium heat until it starts to thicken. these are similar steps to making gravy you want your cheese sauce to come out like a thick cheese gravy.

• Once mixture starts to thicken, add cheese and salt and stir until cheese melts.

• Add noodles in and stir well, remove from heat

• Technically you are done and can serve it, lots of people like to put a little flourish on it, add some paprika to the top, some people like fresh cracked black peppercorn, Myself i prefer to top it with italian croutons and bake it just long enough to toast up the croutons.

Directions2:

Multiple Select

Most of the time people make more mac and cheese than a lot of other table items

This recipe is meant for the 9 x 13 pan

You might want to scale it up for 11 x 15 pan. what step would we take to figure out the scale factor

for this two different geometric rectangles ?

• Find the area of each

• Find the scale factor

• Multiply the ingredients by 2

• Make a fraction of the areas

Multiple Choice

What is the scale factor to change the ingredients by to go from a 9 x 13 to an 11 x 14 pan ?

Round to the nearest 10th (second digit)

• 2

• 1.2

• 1.32

• 1.08

Multiple Choice

The Scale factor is 1.32 What does this mean ?

• we are doubleing the ingredients with extra

• We are increasing the ingredients by 32%

• Shrinking it by 32%

• increasing by 68%

Multiple Choice

The Scale factor is 1.32

the original recipe calls for 3 tablespoons butter

how much do we need to fit a 11 x 14 pan ?

• 5.04 tablespoons

• 6 tablespoons

• 2.04 tablespoons

• 3.96 tablespoons

Multiple Select

How could we go back from an 9 x 13 pan to an 8 x 8 pan in case we want a second half pan ?

• divide the ingredients by 2

• Find the areas

• use the ratio of the area to make a scale factor.

• Multiply the scale factor by the ingredients

Multiple Choice

What is the scale factor for going from a 9 x 13 pan to 8 x 8 ?

• .55

• .54

• .5

• .45

Multiple Choice

The scale factor for going from a 9 x 13 to an 8 x 8 is .55 how much pasta do you need if the original recipe calls for:

• 2.5 cups dry elbow macaroni noodles

• 1.75

• 2 cups

• 1.38 cups

• 2.73 cups.

Multiple Choice

What is the scale factor for going from an 8 x 8 pan to 11 x 14 ?

• .42

• .58

• 2.41

• 1.58