Rice Water
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the rice thoroughly.
Combine the rice and salt in the cold water.
Cook and serve
Cook for 1 hour or until the rice is soft.
Optionally, add a little cream, sugar, and flavoring before serving.
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
What each ingredient does
- Rice
- Starch from the grains thickens the water, and the grains soften as they cook.
The step that matters
Cook until the rice is soft. Rice grains soften as heat gelatinizes their starch over time. Stopping early leaves the grains firm and the liquid thin, so check for softness rather than relying only on the clock.
“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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