Boiled Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Rinse the rice in cold water, rubbing it thoroughly between your hands.
Cook
Bring 2 quarts of cold water to a boil.
Add the rice and cook until tender.
Drain the rice.
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
- Provides the starch that becomes the tender, fluffy grains when cooked in boiling water.
The step that matters
Rinsing the rice. Rinsing washes away surface starch that would otherwise make the cooked grains sticky and clumped together.
“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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