🧀 Maebelle’s Southern Mac and cheese recipe
• 1lb uncooked pasta, macaroni (even though I make Maebelle angry I rather use Cavatappi)
• 4 tbs unsalted butter
• 1/2cup sour cream
• 1 can evaporated milk I like to use @carnationmilks
• 2 cups heavy cream or whole milk
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp coarse salt
• 1 tsp ground mustard
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp paprika
• 1 tsp black pepper.
• 1lb cheddar cheese ( I use sharppp)
• 1lb Colby jack cheese
Maebelle’s Baked Mac & Cheese 🧡 (no cheese sauce, no extra bowl!)
1️⃣ Cook 1 lb of pasta until al dente. Drain it, then put the pasta back into the same warm pot (heat turned off).
2️⃣ Add the butter and mix with the hot pasta, once melted add sour cream, evaporated milk, heavy cream or whole milk, egg and all the seasonings directly into the pot with the pasta. Stir until everything is creamy and the pasta is fully coated. (It should look loose—this is exactly right.)
3️⃣ Add half of your shredded cheese blend into the pot and fold it in.
The other half stays on the side for layering.
4️⃣ Pour in half the pasta, spread it out, then cover that layer with plenty of the reserved cheese blend.
5️⃣ Add the remaining pasta on top and finish with the rest of the cheese.
6️⃣ Cover with foil and bake at 350°F for 30 minutes.
7️⃣ Uncover and broil until the top turns golden and bubbly.
✨ No roux. No sauce. Just creamy, soul-hugging layers of cheese and pasta.
#macandcheese #macncheese
19 Comments
Looks SO GOOD!!!
Recipe
Ty for sharing the recipe and the history!
Randomly came across this and instantly subscribed! The way you told this story and made sure to share this story is gonna make me start looking in to all of my fav comfort foods’ histories 💖 can’t wait to see more of your content
i love this series <3 it's so wonderful learning the histories of these foods i love! a lot of them i didn't even realize were american, but it makes sense; who else would've made mac n cheese?
I love this! I had no idea
I love your videos so much! I'm going to make some mac and cheese now <3
Now THAT is mac n cheese!!
That’s the mac and cheese I grew up knowing. So much nostalgia in that I can smell it
Okay but like mac and cheese with a roux and a bechamel is better
thanks for sharing the recipe, i’ll need to try it! the history bit is also very interesting, thank you
I had no idea, thank you for sharing the story and recipe!
This is how I used to make mine! My family started to prefer the roux one I was testing but I’m gonna bring this back!
I love Mac and cheese! Gracias ❤
But, if he went to France to learn to cook then he would have learned to make the mother sauces. A béchamel with cheese added is a mornay sauce.
Idk how I found your channel, but I love it! History, good food, and it’s slow enough for me to follow? This is exactly how I make my Mac! But I save the pasta water!
You cannot separate slavery or indigenous people's food from modern American cuisine. They're part and parcel of it all.
I mean… how you never learned about it? That's rather obvious – slavery, and even POC in general, is a topic no one wants to talk about, especially in schools. And y'all have the government people supporting white supremacy, social inequality, kkk and all that. I have learned that mac'n'cheese came from Europe on yt shorts recently, but being surprised that no one talks about how some food came to the US from any type of immigrants (apart from the white ones) makes me wonder how much faith people have in education, in any country
Amac’n’cheeserica 🧀