Name: Boiled Rice
Ingredients: 1 cup washed rice; 2 cups boiling water; 1 teaspoon salt

Boiled Rice

Ingredients

1 cup washed rice
2 cups boiling water
1 teaspoon salt

Directions

Combine boiling water, rice, and salt in a pot.
Cover and cook on low heat for 1 hour.

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: Forms the bulk of the dish; its starch absorbs water and swells as it cooks, becoming tender.
Boiling water: Supplies the liquid that the rice absorbs and cooks in, setting its final texture.

“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.