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Rice Water

Rice water is made by soaking rice in water for several hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Rice Water

Rice Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the rice thoroughly in cold water.

  2. Soak the washed rice in 1 quart of water for three hours.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Rice
Provides the starch that gives the soaking water its body and mild flavour.

“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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