1 pound spaghetti

For sauce
1/4 pound melted butter
1 pound ricotta
Salt and pepper to taste

For garnish
1 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
1 tablespoon parsley, chopped

Cook spaghetti as directed on package. Drain.

Put back in pot.

Add melted butter.

Mix ricotta until smooth.

Pour over hot spaghetti.

Sprinkle with parsley and grated cheese.

Serve very hot.

Serves 6.

The recipe in this entry was taken from the cookbook, "Simple Italian Cookery" by Edna Beilenson. The book was published in Mount Vernon, N.Y. by Peter Pauper Press in 1959. The entire copyright-free cookbook is available at www.archive.org.... Image -- Anton Mauve: Femme de La Ren avec une chevre, 1885.

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