• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Mac and Cheese is literally a bog-standard gratin with Mornay sauce. If the British claim is to have downgraded it by replacing all the veggies with straight carbs then I guess yeah we’ll have you let that one.

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      7 months ago

      Wth is gratin. Edit gratin is a cooking technique looking into it not a food item

      Mac and cheeses origins ordinate back to the 14 hundreds as a meal most commonly found in the uk and Italy

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_and_cheese?wprov=sfla1

      The modern recipe for the mac and cheese we all love and enjoy nowadays was invented in uk in 1716 invented by a housekeeper and published in her book The Experienced English Housekeeper.

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        7 months ago

        we all love and enjoy nowadays

        No. Well maybe in the Anglosphere. In Germany you’re more likely to see Gratin de chou-fleur, that is, broadly speaking, replace all the macaroni with cauliflower, than Mac&Cheese. If you’re being lazy just use a package of frozen veggies, those cauliflower-carrot-pea-butter-spices boxes. Add a potato or two if you want carbs. If you want cheesy comfort pasta there’s either proper Carbonara, or a cream and cheese sauce, more or less exactly South Tyrol style.