Rice Water
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the rice
Combine rice, cold water, and salt in a saucepan.
Boil slowly for 1 hour.
Stir for 1 minute when it begins to boil.
Strain and serve
Strain through a fine wire sieve.
Serve warm or cold, sweetened with sugar or seasoned with salt as desired.
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 a light body and a slightly cloudy look.
The step that matters
Boil slowly for 1 hour. A gentle simmer lets starch leach out of the rice gradually. A hard boil can scorch the bottom of the pan during the long cook and make the liquid cloudier.
“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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