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To Boil Rice Plain

Plain boiled rice made by washing, boiling, draining, and warming.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Boil Rice Plain

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the rice and drain it.

  2. In a large saucepan, bring salted water to a boil.

  3. Add the rice and boil hard for 20 minutes.

  4. Pour the rice into a colander and drain well.

  5. Transfer the rice to a smaller saucepan and keep it warm on the back of the stove until all moisture has evaporated. Serve.

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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What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the bulk of the dish, absorbing little water once drained so grains stay separate.

The step that matters

Drain the rice well. Excess water left on the cooked grains makes the rice soggy. Draining thoroughly and then drying it over gentle residual heat lets surface moisture evaporate so the grains stay fluffy and separate.

“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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