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Rice Water

Rice water is a beverage made by simmering rice in water and straining the liquid.

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

Rice Water

1 pint

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Combine rice, cold water, and salt in a saucepan.

  2. Bring to a slow boil and cook for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.

  3. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve; you should have 1 pint of rice water.

Serve

  1. Serve warm or cold, sweetened with sugar or seasoned with salt as desired.

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
Releases starch into the water, giving the liquid body and a mild, grainy flavor.

The step that matters

Keep it at a slow boil and stir occasionally. A slow boil with occasional stirring keeps the rice from settling and scorching on the bottom of the pan while starch slowly leaches into the water over the full hour.

“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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