Boiled Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the rice thoroughly.
Add the rice to 2 quarts of boiling water.
Once the rice is swollen, drain it in a sieve.
Cook
Place the rice in a basin or tin pail.
Stand the basin in a pot of boiling salted water.
Let it cook until perfectly tender.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Rice
- Provides the starch that swells and softens into the dish's tender body.
- Boiling water
- Hydrates the rice grains so they swell and cook through.
The step that matters
Let it cook until perfectly tender. Rice grains need enough time in hot water for starch to gelatinize fully. Stopping early leaves the centre firm and chalky, while the grains are then hard to judge by appearance alone, so test by tasting.
“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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