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Rice Water

A simple dish of rice simmered in water with salt, optionally finished with cream, sugar, and flavoring.

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

Rice Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the rice thoroughly.

  2. Combine the rice and salt in the cold water.

  3. Cook for 1 hour or until the rice is soft.

  4. Optionally, add a little cream, sugar, and flavoring before serving.

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

Rice
Releases starch into the water, giving it a light, slightly thickened body.

“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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