Grammy's Kitchen · Macaroni and Cheese · Classic Baked Macaroni and Cheese
One of 120 macaroni and cheese recipes we measured
from southernbite.com
9 cooks on southernbite.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 120.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| cheese | 62% | 112% |
| dairy | 108% | 168% |
| fat | 6% | 13% |
| thickener | 3% | 0% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| different cheeses | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| melt idx | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| cheese flavor idx | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| stretch idx | 0.4 | 0.3 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 488 g | 2 cups milk |
| 28 g | 2 tablespoons butter |
| 15 g | 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper |
| 282 g | 2 1/2 cups shredded hoop cheese |
| 454 g | 1/2 (16-ounce) package elbow macaroni (cooked according to the package instructions) |
Method: 3 steps, published by southernbite.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I made this recipe for my family, however, we used cheddar cheese. The children absolutely loved it! I will be making it again for Thanksgiving dinner, and I hope that it will bring back the same nostalgic memories that Stouffer’s did for many years. I am sure” — a cook, 5.0★
“This recipe is the absolute *best*! I either make it as written and bake it -or- sometimes, instead of finishing in the oven, I spoon it from the pot into bowls and top it with pulled pork smothered in Stubbs' Sticky Sweet barbecue sauce and serve it as a m” — a cook, 5.0★