The best food ever! My grandma used to serve it to us kids with grape jelly on the side. To this day I eat it that way, even if it grosses out those eating next to me. Try it, (best with homemade grape jelly, of course) you might like it! I think it came from Depression times when she had many mouths to feed and no money. Macaroni and also cheese were government "commodity" foods (free food that was surplus, now much of it goes to schools) and she made her own jelly. Anyway, question - is this amount of sauce for one lb. of pasta? How about making it ahead? I'm having a brunch soon and it would be a great addition. Candace, the sauce is for 1/2 pound (8 ounces) of pasta (about 2 cups dry pasta). Check out the mac and cheese recipe for more info. And actually, the jelly doesn't sound half-bad - I love the salty/sweet thing. We were actually talking yesterday about apple pie with a bacon lattice crust... PJH

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