Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the rice well and soak it overnight in cold water.
Boil a large pot of salted water.
Cook
Add the soaked rice to the boiling water and cook for 20 minutes until the grains swell.
If not soaked, wash the rice and add it gradually to boiling water, maintaining a continuous boil, and cook for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
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.
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What each ingredient does
- Rice
- Starch that swells and softens as it absorbs water, giving the cooked grains their body.
The step that matters
Keep the water at a continuous boil when adding unsoaked rice. Adding rice gradually and keeping the water boiling stops the temperature from dropping, so the grains cook evenly instead of turning gummy or unevenly done.
“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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