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Boiled Rice Prepared in Southern Fashion

A simple boiled rice dish prepared with water, salt, and rice, then covered and left to swell.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Boiled Rice Prepared in Southern Fashion

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Bring water to a rapid boil and add salt.

  2. Slowly add the rice to the boiling water without stirring.

  3. Cook for about 20 minutes, testing the rice occasionally.

Rest the rice

  1. Pour off all the water and cover the rice with a cloth.

  2. Place the covered rice in a warm spot to allow it to swell.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Rice
Starch that softens and swells in boiling water to form the cooked grains.

The step that matters

Adding the rice without stirring. Stirring releases starch from the grains into the water, which makes the cooked rice gummy and sticky. Adding it slowly keeps the water boiling so the grains cook evenly and separately.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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