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Steamed Rice

A simple dish of rice cooked 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 and wash the rice well.

  2. Combine rice, water, and salt in a pot.

  3. Cook until the rice is soft, about 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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Rice
Its starch absorbs water and swells, turning the grains soft and tender as they cook.
Water
Hydrates the rice starch and carries the heat that softens the grains during cooking.

The step that matters

Pick and wash the rice well. Rinsing removes loose surface starch that would otherwise make the cooked grains gummy and clump together in the pot.

“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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