Rice Water
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the rice.
Add the rice to the cold water in a pot.
Place the pot on the stove and cook for 30 minutes.
Season with salt, strain, and serve.
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 cooks into the soft, tender grains of the dish.
“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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