Never Make Mac and Cheese This Way Again. Try This Old Texas Soul Food Trick

If your baked macaroni and cheese has ever come out greasy, or grainy, or dry at the edges and soupy in the middle, you did not do anything wrong. You were taught a sauce. A Southern baked macaroni and cheese is not a sauce. It is a custard. Those are two completely different things, and nearly every recipe printed in the last fifty years has told you the wrong one. Eggs, not flour. That is the whole difference, and it is why the pan at the church supper cut into a clean square and yours ran on the plate. My mother never made a sauce in her life for this. Today I am showing you the way she did it, and the seven places people go wrong. WHAT IS IN THIS VIDEO Why a custard holds and a flour sauce breaks in the oven One. The macaroni, and why you take it out early Two. The bagged cheese problem, and how to prove it with your fingers Three. Two cheeses, not one, and why all sharp goes oily Four. Evaporated milk, and the can you must not grab by mistake Five. The eggs, and how to keep them from scrambling Six. Layering, and why you do not mix it in a bowl Seven. The one that catches everybody, at the end of the bake The amounts, written down in one place The loaf pan version for one or two Troubleshooting, so you know which step yours was Tell me down in the comments who made this in your family, and whether you ever got the recipe. I have a feeling a lot of us are going to say the same thing. And tell me what county you are in. I read every single one. I am Denise. Born on the island in nineteen sixty three, four blocks off the seawall. This channel is the old ways, and where the old way has been beaten by something better and cheaper, I will tell you that too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TAGS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- soul food mac and cheese, baked macaroni and cheese, southern mac and cheese, old fashioned mac and cheese, mac and cheese with eggs, custard mac and cheese, church supper mac and cheese, black southern cooking, soul food recipes, no flour mac and cheese, evaporated milk mac and cheese, texas soul food, gulf coast cooking, macaroni and cheese recipe, grandma mac and cheese, baked mac and cheese, southern cooking, soul food side dishes, holiday mac and cheese, creamy baked macaroni