Name: Steamed Rice
Ingredients: 1 cup rice; 2 teaspoons salt; 4 cups boiling water

Steamed Rice

Ingredients

1 cup rice
2 teaspoons salt
4 cups boiling water

Directions

Prepare

Pick over and wash the rice in three or four changes of water.

Steam and serve

Combine the rice, boiling water, and salt in a double boiler.
Steam for 40 minutes or until tender.
Serve with milk or cream.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Rice: Provides the starch that softens with steam to become the tender grain of the dish.
Boiling water: Supplies the liquid that the rice absorbs as it cooks through to tenderness.

“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.