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Making your own pasta from scratch is very satisfying and surprisingly easy. It will certainly impress your family and dinner guests, and although time-consuming, making it means that you will have trouble going back to store-bought dry pasta.

Each home cook has a favorite recipe, with all-eggs, just egg whites, or water only. Our how-to step-by-step will yield a pound of all-egg pasta, and you only need three ingredients that you probably already have on hand: flour, salt, and eggs (2 cups of unbleached flour, 3 large eggs, and a half-teaspoon of salt).

First, place the flour in a mound on a clean countertop or cutting board and make a well in the center. Put the eggs and salt into the well.

Whisk the eggs together with a fork without disturbing the flour.