Rice Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Soak the rice in cold water for 1 hour.
Boil the soaked rice.
Add the gravy, cayenne, and salt.
Boil for 5 minutes.
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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What each ingredient does
- Fine rice
- Starch that thickens the soup as it cooks and softens.
- Gravy
- Provides the liquid base and most of the savoury flavour.
“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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