"Alan Calan" > wrote in message
...
>I bought one of those on Sunday in anticipation of the snow storm. I
> also wanted to use up a William Sonoma credit that I had. So, what
> went wrong:
>
> I followed the recipe for egg pasta provided in the manual of the
> roller/cutters. It said 3.5 cups of flour (I used 125 grams x 3.5 or
> 437 grams), 3 eggs, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and one tablespoon of water.
> It made very dry dough that would not come together. So I started
> adding water and I'd bet all in all I added close to a 1/2 a cup or
> more.
>

That's the trouble with stupid cup recipes! They never tell you how to fill
the cup and the weight can vary from 100g to >130g.
The recipe I have is:
300g flour
3 eggs
1 tsp salt