Roll the dough into a rectangle that is about 5mm/¼in thick. Feed the pasta through a pasta machine on the widest setting. Fold and feed through again. Repeat the process four or five times.

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface ... Form the remaining pasta into a block and roll out on a very lightly floured surface as thinly as you can – even thinner than a two pence ...

Made from the flour of durum wheat, pasta takes its name from the pasty texture of the dough when it is first mixed. Different pastas have different names, many based on the different shapes the ...