Name: Boiled Rice
Ingredients: 2 cups of rice; 3 pints of boiling water; ½ teaspoon of salt

Boiled Rice

Ingredients

2 cups of rice
3 pints of boiling water
½ teaspoon of salt

Directions

Combine rice, boiling water, and salt in a farina boiler.
Cook for 4 hours.

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: Starch that softens and swells as it cooks, becoming the body of the dish.
Boiling water: Hydrates the rice grains so they can soften and cook through.

“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.