Basic Pasta Dough

Directions

1. 1
   Combine the above ingredients to make a dough.
2. 2
   wrap in a towel and let sit for 30 minutes.
3. 3
   [start the sauce heating.]
4. 4
   After the 30 minutes, [start the water boiling] divide the dough in half and roll out each half, allowing the first sheet of pasta to sit while rolling out the second.
5. 5
   When the sheets are dryish, cut according to how you like your pasta.
6. 6
   The pasta maker recommends rolling, and folding in half before rerolling.
7. 7
   after rolling you are supposed to sprinkle some flour betwixt the two halves.
8. 8
   If you create a dry enough dough, then you do not need to do this.
9. 9
   in fact, the first time through the rollers, my dough is pretty crumbly at the edges, but a few more passes makes the dough much more workable.
10. 10
    Cook for about 2 minutes.