Egg noodles cost about $1 a pound or more to buy at the store and they have unidentifiable ingredients that are probably not good for you. Homemade egg noodles only cost pennies and are very simple to make. It only takes 2 ingredients to make homemade egg noodles, flour and eggs, that's it.
Here is a good rule of thumb, two eggs for each cup of flour and a little for rolling out the dough. Just add 1 cup of flour to your shallow mixing bowl. Make a little well in the center. Crack two eggs into the well.
Mix and then knead until it looks like this. Just takes a few minutes. I couldn't take a picture since I had dough all over my hands. My camera still had flour on it, but it wipes off easily enough.
Cover and let rest for 20 minutes. While the dough is resting, bring salted water or soup base to a boil. I used turkey stock out of a turkey that I had roasted the day before yesterday. I had purchased a couple of turkeys that were on sale for .57 a pound a little while back. Wow, that was a bargain considering you can't get any kind of meat for under $2 a pound anymore. The cost of food is ridiculous....
Roll it out pretty thin. It plumps up when it cooks. My dough is a beautiful rich color due to my home grown eggs. Thank you Chickie birds...
I used my pizza cutter to cut the noodles. I also cut them into shorter pieces, so they would fit on my spoon when I ate the soup. If using in other dishes cut into whatever size and length you need.
I dusted the cut noodles with a little more flour to keep the noodles from sticking together as they cooked. I also added the left over flour to my soup to make it a little thicker. Waste not, want not...
Add the noodles to your salted boiling liquid of your choice. Do not skip the salt. Boil for at least three minutes.
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