Boiled Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the rice thoroughly.
Cook
Put the rice in boiling salted water and boil rapidly for 10 minutes.
Transfer the rice to a double boiler and cook until tender.
Drain and dry the rice carefully.
Serve
Serve hot, or place in wet molds and serve cold with apple jelly.
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
- Forms the bulk of the dish; its starch swells and softens as it cooks in water.
- Boiling water
- Cooks the rice by hydrating its starch so the grains become tender.
- Salt
- Seasons the cooking water so the rice itself is flavored throughout.
The step that matters
Drain and dry the rice carefully. Excess surface water left on cooked rice makes it soggy and clumped. Drying lets the grains stay separate and keeps the texture light.
“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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