More About Cooking Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the rice
Put the rice in the inner kettle of a farina boiler.
Add the salt and boiling water.
Boil for fifteen minutes.
Drain off the water.
Steam and rest
Cover the inner kettle closely.
Place the inner kettle in the outer boiler.
Let it stand on the stove for one hour.
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 cooks into the tender grains of the dish.
- Boiling water
- Cooks the rice by hydrating its starch and softening the grains.
The step that matters
Drain off the water. Draining after the first boil removes excess water, so the rice can finish steaming in the covered kettle rather than turning soggy.
“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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