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Steamed Rice

Rice cooked in milk or water with salt.

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

Why it works: Milk and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Steamed Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the liquid

  1. In a double boiler, combine milk or water and salt.

  2. Place the double boiler on the stove and bring to a boil.

Cook the rice

  1. Add the washed rice and boil hard for 5 minutes.

  2. Return the double boiler to heat and cook until the rice is soft, adjusting time based on the rice's age.

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

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Rice
Starch that absorbs the liquid and swells as it cooks, becoming soft and tender.
Milk or water
Liquid that hydrates the rice starch and carries the heat that cooks the grains.

The step that matters

Cooking until the rice is soft. Rice softens gradually as its starch absorbs liquid and swells, and older rice takes longer to soften. Judge doneness by texture rather than by the clock alone.

“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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