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Rice Water

A simple cooked rice dish made with Carolina rice and water, optionally flavored with cream.

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

Why it works: Rice and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,399 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Rice Water

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the rice several times with water.

  2. Soak or boil the rice in 3 pints of water.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil slowly for about 1 hour.

  2. Strain the rice and sweeten or flavor as desired.

  3. Serve plain or with ⅕ part of sterilized cream.

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 + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Carolina rice
Starch that softens and releases into the water, giving the drink its body.
Water
Cooking liquid that softens the rice grains and extracts their starch.

The step that matters

Boil slowly for about 1 hour. A gentle simmer lets the rice soften and release starch evenly without scorching or breaking the grains apart. Too hard a boil can scorch the bottom and cloud the liquid unevenly.

“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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