Macaroni Pie

Mugliazzo (macaroni Pie) is an old Moiano Italy         recipe from the late 19th Century                           

Mother baked it quite often when we were children  during the Great Depression.                                  

Mother prepared it as follows

1.  Cook one pound of spaghetti or  vermicelli, your  choice.  After the pasta is  cooked drain water and   then add cold water until it is cold.  Beat 5 eggs and  mix with cold pasta. Add: salt grated cheeses (Romano, Parmagiano, or Asiago) Then add one cup of cubed ham one inch or smaller.  Other items one may ad instead of ham, anchovies orsausage pieces.                                                                     3. Mix all ingredients well.                                      

4. Place in cake tin so that mixture is not more than 4 inches deep.                                                         

5. Place in preheated oven and bake for 30-45          minutes.  oven temperature about 300 degrees.       

Mother occasionally would brown the mixture in a     large frying pan and place the pan and mixture in the oven to bake.  Other times she would put pie crust on top of mixture before she baked it.                    

When we were children we called mugliazzo,           macaroni pie.                                                        

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Mother and dad cutting cake on their 38th wedding anniversary July 13, 1957

 

Marie-1937

Marie and cousin Frank Mango on Manhattan Street Schenectady probably summer of 1943

Above Angelo Mango the oldest and first of the 6 brothers to came to America.  He later provided the money so his younger brothers could also come to America.  Three of the six would later return to Italy to raise their families Angelo being one of them.  My dad, his maternal twin Pasquale and Bernardino remained in America.