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Steamed Rice

A simple steamed rice cooked with milk and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Steamed Rice

Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Steamed Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick over and wash the rice.

  2. Place the rice in a two-quart dish with the milk and salt.

Steam

  1. Set the dish in a steamer with a tight-fitting cover.

  2. Steam for 2 hours, stirring lightly with a fork occasionally to prevent packing.

Serve

  1. Serve with cream and sugar.

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

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Carolina rice
Its starch absorbs the milk and softens into tender, separate grains as it steams.
Fresh milk
Supplies the liquid the rice absorbs and gives the grains a creamy, rich texture.

The step that matters

Stir lightly with a fork during steaming. As rice cooks, its surface starch becomes sticky and grains can clump and pack together. Occasional gentle stirring separates the grains and keeps the texture light and even.

“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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