Now, making homemade pasta is a labor of love. An Italian nonna may make a fresh batch of dough every Sunday morning, but many of us only roll up our sleeves to make pasta for special occasions.

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.

A food processor or mixer to knead the dough, together with a pasta attachment to roll and cut the finished dough to size are both useful bits of kit if making pasta becomes your thing!