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Steamed Rice

A simple steamed rice dish cooked with salt and served with optional sugar, cream, and raisins.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Steamed Rice

Steamed Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the rice thoroughly.

  2. Bring water to a boil in a double boiler.

Cook

  1. Pour the rice slowly into the boiling water.

  2. Add salt and cook until the grains are tender.

  3. Drain the rice in a colander.

Serve

  1. Serve with sugar and cream; raisins may be added.

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
Its starch swells and softens with heat, giving the grains their tender body.
Water
Hydrates the starch so the grains soften as they cook.

The step that matters

Pour the rice slowly into the boiling water. Adding the rice gradually keeps the water at a rolling boil, so the grains cook evenly and are less likely to clump together.

“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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