Name: Rice Soup
Ingredients: 1 quart broth; 1 ounce rice (Carolina rice preferred)

Rice Soup

Ingredients

1 quart broth
1 ounce rice (Carolina rice preferred)

Directions

Prepare

Bring the broth to a boil.
Thoroughly wash and pick the rice.

Cook

Add the rice to the boiling broth.
Let it simmer quietly for 30 minutes.

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

Broth: Provides the liquid base that the rice cooks in and absorbs flavor from.
Rice: Absorbs liquid and softens as it simmers, thickening the soup and giving it body.

“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.