Homemade noodle recipe

When I was first married I asked my mother for her recipe for homemade noodles that she always used whenever she made chicken-noodle soup. She laughed and went to retrieve her recipe. Thus I became part of a multi-generational joke. When she was first married, she asked her mother-in-law for a recipe for homemade noodles and was given the same piece of paper my mother handed me that day. She said Grandma Newlin laughed also when she gave Mom that recipe. The recipe was the same recipe that Grandma Newlin was given when she was a young girl. Mom didn't know whether it was Grandma Goff or Grandma White who first wrote down the recipe, but she thought it was Grandma Goff.

Make a pile of flour, as much as you want.

Make a hole in the flour and put an egg in it.

Fill up the small half of the shell with water and put it in the hole.

Mix with your hands.

This recipe was full of very quaintly spelled words. I kept it and all my other recipes from Mom in a gray department store shirt box. The last time I remember having my box of recipes was when I lived in Mountlake Terrace in Washington. Whatever happened to the box during my move I cannot say. The spelling was something this: "Mak a pil of flowr, az mutch az yu wunt." I had always intended to have that recipe framed to hang on my kitchen wall. Just one of the many things I intended to do and never got around to doing. The memory of it still brings a smile to my face.