Name: Rice Water
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons rice; 2 cups water; a pinch of salt

Rice Water

Ingredients

2 tablespoons rice
2 cups water
a pinch of salt

Directions

Wash the rice.
Boil the rice with water and salt.
Strain the rice and set it on ice.

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: Releases starch into the cooking water, giving the liquid its body and cloudiness.
Water: Cooking medium that carries the rice's starch out of the grains and cooks the rice.

“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.