Another memory, this time of my great grandmother, also from Iowa:
Great Grandma’s Homemade Noodles
(Have chicken broth or vegetarian vegetable broth simmering on the stove)
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp. salt
about 1 c. flour plus more for kneading
Place flour in a mound shape on clean dry surface (pastry sheet). Sprinkle salt over flour.
Make a well in center of mound and drop in egg yolk. Mix with fingers or else use fork. Continue kneading lightly to make dough a little stiffer than the consistency of biscuit dough. Flour the surface well and roll out or pat out noodle dough with rolling pin to about 1/4 inch thick. With paring knife, cut into strips.
Drop into simmering broth and cook.
I don’t remember how long to cook. I watched my great grandma make these in 1970 when I was a pre-teen. I don’t think she dried hers, at least not that I remember, but simmered them in the broth directly after slicing them into strips.
I’m looking at these recipes kind of late but I have found that using a pizza cutter for homemade noodles makes it really easy and it doesn’t stretch the dough.
My husband frequents antique stores for old trains and watches and just recently I decided to check out antique recipe books, especially regional ones. I’ve found some great old recipes to try.