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Steamed Rice

A simple dish of rice steamed in boiling water with salt.

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

Steamed Rice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick over and wash the rice thoroughly.

  2. Combine rice, boiling water, and salt in a bowl.

  3. Place the bowl in a steamer over rapidly boiling water.

  4. Cook until the rice is soft, about 45 minutes to 1 hour.

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
Starch that gelatinises as it cooks, giving the grains their soft, tender texture.

“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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