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| After you are done kneading the dough. Form it into a nice Pasta Dough ball like you see here. |
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| Now is a good time to start heating up your oil to 350 degrees F. I recommend using a shallow electric skillet like you see here instead of a fry daddy or something that deep dries. |
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| You will need a good pasta machine at this point to help you get paper thing pasta strips that you will need to make the Bow Ties. |
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| Divide the dough ball into quarters and work with a quarter at a time. With a rolling pin, roll out the dough until it is about 1/8" thick. |
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| You should end up with a pasta dough like you see here that is about 1/8" think of less. |
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| With a pizza cutter, cut the dough into strips about 3" wide by 10" or longer. You will use this to run through the pasta machine. |
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| Now cut your strips into pieces that are about 3" wide and 7" long. This does not have to be exact. You just want to have a good size that fits in the pasta machine with a lot of room left over. |
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| Set your pasta machine to setting 3 and slowly run it through the pasta machine using the flat rollers that you usually use to make lasagna noodles with. |
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| The original piece you cur will get wider, longer and thinner as you can see here. |
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| Now set your pasta machine to setting 2 and run it through again. It will get wider, longer and thinner again. |
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| This is the perfect thinness to start making your bow ties with. |
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| .Here, my wife and I are going through the process again. Preparing a bunch of thin past dough strips to work with so we can mass produce the bow ties. |
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| I don't have it shown here, but when you have the dough paper thin after running it through the pasta machine twice. You will cut the pasta dough into small strips that are about 7" long and 1/2" wide. You will use those small strip to tie your bow ties. My wife CIndy is demonstrating here. |
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| Here I am trying to tie them as delicately as she did. My first two neanderthal efforts failed miserably because i was breaking the pasta. Gently tie the bow ties. You have to be delicate. Your not really ties, you are carefully looping and pushing through. You'll get the hang of it. Just don't man handle it like it's cowboy rope or something! |
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| Once you get the hang of gently tying your bow tie pasta, you should start to get a bunch ready to go like you can see here. |
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| Make sure your oil is at 350 degrees F. Now you are ready to test. Drop one bow tie in and see how it goes. It's should sink at first and then pope up to the surface rather quickly. They only take about 1 to 2 minutes to cook. You want to cook them until they are golden brown. I usually flip the around a couple of times before I take them out. |
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| OK, no gently place a bunch in there and start frying! |
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| Use a large spoon to flip them around while frying. |
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