Name: Steamed Rice
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons salt; 4 cups boiling water; four waters

Steamed Rice

Ingredients

2 teaspoons salt
4 cups boiling water
four waters

Directions

Prepare

Wash the rice in three or four waters.

Steam and serve

Put the washed rice with the boiling water and salt into the double boiler.
Steam for 40 minutes or until tender.
Serve with milk or cream.

By New Orleans Federation of Clubs. 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. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Rice (in the method): Forms the main body of the dish; steaming cooks the grains until soft and tender.
Boiling water: Provides the liquid that hydrates the grains and cooks them through during steaming.

“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.