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To Boil Rice

A simple boiled rice dish cooked in cold water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Boil Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the rice until perfectly clean.

  2. In a large pot, combine the rice and cold water.

Cook and dry

  1. Bring to a boil and cook for 20 minutes.

  2. Strain the rice through a sieve.

  3. Place the rice before the fire and shake it with a fork occasionally to separate the grains and dry it out.

Serve

  1. Serve hot.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Rice
Starch that softens and swells in boiling water to become the dish itself.
Cold water
Hydrates the rice grains so they cook through evenly during boiling.

The step that matters

Shaking the rice while it dries. Shaking with a fork separates the grains and lets surface moisture evaporate, so they stay distinct rather than clumping into a sticky mass.

“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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