Name: Steamed Rice
Ingredients: 1 cup rice; 3 cups cold water; 1 teaspoon salt

Steamed Rice

Ingredients

1 cup rice
3 cups cold water
1 teaspoon salt

Directions

Prepare

Wash the rice in three changes of water.
Combine the rice, salt, and cold water in a bowl that holds about 3 pints.

Steam and serve

Steam for 1 hour.
When ready to serve, gently turn the rice into a warm vegetable dish.

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: Starch that swells as it absorbs water, forming the body of the dish.
Cold water: Supplies the moisture the rice absorbs as it cooks through steam.

“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.