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Rice Water

A beverage made by boiling rice in water, then straining and sweetening to taste.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Rice Water

Rice Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil rice in boiling water for 1 hour.

  2. Strain the mixture.

  3. Sweeten and flavor to taste.

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 released into the water gives the drink its body and slight thickness.

“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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