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Rice Water

A simple beverage made by simmering rice in water, seasoned with salt and optionally flavored with sherry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Rice Water

Why it works: Rice and sherry work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 572 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Rice Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add the rice to the boiling water.

  2. Let it simmer for 2 hours until thoroughly cooked.

  3. Strain through a fine strainer.

  4. Flavor with salt.

  5. Serve hot or cold.

  6. If desired, add sherry for extra flavor.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Rice + sherrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together572 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Rice
Releases starch into the water during simmering, giving the liquid body and a cloudy, slightly thick 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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