These homemade egg noodles are pure comfort food. My great-grandma made them, then my maw-maw, my mom and now little dude. They are a must have around Thanksgiving, but we also make chicken and noodles at least a time or two throughout the year.
These homemade egg noodles are perfect for making chicken noodle soup. They are also great for beef and noodles or any variety of comfort foods.
But they are perhaps most famous for showing up as a side dish on our Thanksgiving plates. No matter how you serve them, they are fun to make and a great project for the family. Nothing tastes as good as homemade!
Noodles were a staple at my mom’s Thanksgiving dinners growing up. Turkey, stuffing and Thanksgiving noodles were the must haves. Paw-Paw grew up eating these noodles. When the hoosier moved to Illinois, the noodles had to come too.
My Great-Grandma McCallum taught my Maw-Maw to make them after she and Paw-Paw got married. The Buchsbaums took to them quickly!
Mom says Thanksgiving was always a big to-do. The silver had to be polished, the china and crystal came out. Thanksgiving morning all the grandkids knew what their job was.
Noodle making! They had to be spread throughout the kitchen to dry.
My mom and her siblings used to love getting to visit Indiana as children. They enjoyed yearly reunions at Turkey Run State Park. Visiting their grandparents, Omer and Evelyn, in Crawfordsville was always a treat.
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Paw-Paw called the area where they lived “Tinkersville.” They had a home on an acre and a half a little south of town. to the suburban kids, this was real country living.
Evelyn (my Great Callum) had a large garden and chickens. She would go get a chicken out of the backyard and fry it. Scalloped corn, mashed potatoes and gravy, home grown green beans and homemade pies made with lard would finish the menu.
She was adamant that her pie crusts be made with lard and never butter, and where she got her lard for that pie would always be a topic of conversation.
The kids also like their grandparents’ house because they had a riding lawn mower, which they had a lot of fun playing with. One of the favorite things in the house was the cuckoo clock that was brought here from Europe. The kids would tell their friends they were going to visit their grandma and grandpa at the “cuckoo house.”
I remember visiting Great Callum’s house in Indiana at least once as a child. She moved to Florida when Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw did. I remember her as a sweet woman who took extra peanuts on her Peanut Buster Parfait and ate a little slice off a Snicker’s bar for a snack, making one candy bar last for days.
She just so happened to be in town when we got an unexpected foal from a pony the vet assured us was not pregnant. My mom thought it was a dalmatian when she first saw it and then exclaimed “it’s a baby!” It’s funny how things like that stick out in your head.
Were you lucky enough to know your great-grandparents? I had the great fortune of knowing 4 of mine and though they are gone now they live on in our memories and in our kitchens!
If you like homemade chicken and noodles, but don’t have time to make your own, try making my easy crockpot chicken and noodles. It uses frozen egg noodles (which you can make yourself when you do have time or buy from the store.)
Homemade Egg Noodles
Ingredients
- 1 beaten egg
- 2 Tablespoons milk
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup all-purpose flour plus additional for rolling
Instructions
- Mix together egg, milk and salt.1 beaten egg, 2 Tablespoons milk, ½ teaspoon salt
- Add flour, a little at a time until it all comes together. You may not use it all.1 cup all-purpose flour
- Let the dough rest for ten minutes.
- Turn onto a floured surface and roll out as thin as you can get it. (We actually like our noodles a little thicker, so we leave ours at about 1/8 thick or a bit more. It results in a more dumpling like noodle)
- Let the dough rest for 20 more minutes.
- Loosely roll dough and cut into strips.
- Lay the noodles out and let them dry.
- Break them into the size you like.
- Place in a pot of boiling stock. I like cook down a little onion, carrot and celery. I then add the stock and bring to a boil. I add the noodles and chunks of chicken or turkey and devour. Sometimes I make it more as a soup, sometime I make it thick like Great Callum’s Thanksgiving noodles. They are always good!
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This recipe looks just like what my Grandma made every Sunday. She made them before she left for church. Rolled and cut them and layed them on clean dish towels, she only used for them and hung them over the back of the kitchen chairs to dry so they were ready when she got back home. Sometimes they were cooked in beef broth after she made a roast or once in a while with chicken but she didn’t do a lot of chicken. We did a lot of pork roast and snitzel. She was a butcher and we were poor but she made sure we ate good.
I love that so much! We almost always do chicken or turkey, but I’ll have to do beef and noodles this fall in your Grandma’s honor.
Great fun vidio!
Thank you!
I've made noodles a few times, and these look good. I'm thinking that I may need to try it.
They are worth the effort, for sure!
Carlee, what fun! I love your multi-generational noodle story! I think I'm the only one in my family who makes homemade pasta.
My little guy loooooooves to make pasta, so I am not along anymore. In fact, I never get to touch the crank!
Well this brought back memories of Grandma McCallum. I remember those noodles, the riding mower, the clock, and most of all the picnics at Turkey Run! Thanks for bringing back some great memories and for sharing this favorite recipe!
Thanks for stopping by, Beth!
Egg noodles are THE best! My dad used to make them for my brother and I all the time while we were growing up. The texture alone is amazing, there's nothing like them!
They are a bit of work, but SOOO worth it! I think they are the ultimate comfort food!
This is my favorite kind of noodle. I can remember my mom and grandma making them, and I still do make them. But what is this noodle cutter your mom has? I have never seen that before and think that looks so cool!!
Mine too! Isn't that cutter cool? Thanks!
How fun to read the story that goes with the noodles! I make home=made usually once a year after thanksgiving for my soup – but I've never made so many! What a job! I just cut mine with a pizza cutter of all things but that roller is way cool! If I made them more often or in bigger quantity I'd really want a cutter, but even so that's a labor of love!
Luckily I have a little helper who is a great help and has a long attention span! Mom and I made them last year, but this year my little guy and I did it together one morning and had a blast doing it. We used my pasta roller this time, on the thickest setting. He loves to crank it, so we got it done in no time!
Hi Carlee, your Great Callum sounds an interesting character and if she could make a Snicker last for days she has my total respect.
I your Mums cool noodle cutter! I've not made noodles for ages, but when I do I have one of the modern ones with to rollers. Your Mums is so much more practical and straight forward to use!
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She has mine too, I can't make a Snickers last an hour 😉 Isn't that cutter cool? My little guy and I used the crank pasta maker on the last batch we made, but it was fun to use the roller version too!
My grandma would be so pleased to know that you continue the tradition of making these noodles.
They are a bit of work, but totally worth it!