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To Boil Rice

A simple method for boiling rice with water and salt.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the rice thoroughly with cold water.

  2. Bring a saucepan of water to a boil and add salt.

Cook

  1. Add the rice to the boiling water.

  2. Cook until the grains soften.

  3. Drain the water.

Steam

  1. Cover the rice.

  2. Let it steam on the stove until the grains separate.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Rice
Its starch swells and softens during cooking, forming the body of the dish.
Water
Hydrates the grains as the cooking medium, letting them soften evenly.

The step that matters

Let it steam on the stove until the grains separate. Covered steaming lets residual heat and trapped moisture finish cooking the grains. Once the surface dries, the grains stay separate instead of clumping into a sticky mass.

“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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