To Boil Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the rice thoroughly.
In a pot, combine the rice and water.
Cook and drain
Boil until the rice is tender.
Drain the rice in a colander without stirring.
Dry
Let it sit in front of the fire for about 10 minutes to dry.
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 main body of the dish as its starch softens during boiling.
- Water
- Cooks the rice by hydrating its starch grains as it boils.
The step that matters
Drain the rice without stirring. Stirring after boiling releases more surface starch from the grains, which makes the cooked rice gummy and clumped. Leaving it undisturbed keeps the grains 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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