Southern Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the rice
Pick over the rice and wash it in cold water.
Soak the rice in plenty of cold water for four hours.
Drain the water from the rice.
Cook
In a pot, combine the rice with 3 quarts of boiling water and 1 teaspoon of salt.
Boil for 20 minutes until each grain is separate.
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 absorbs water and swells, setting the final texture of each grain.
The step that matters
Boil until each grain is separate. Rice cooked in plenty of boiling water keeps its grains apart, because surface starch washes away. Cooking too long past the point where grains separate turns the rice soft and sticky.
“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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