Boiled Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Bring 2 quarts of water to a boil.
Add 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 pint of rice.
Boil for 1 hour without stirring.
Turn off the heat and let the rice sit in the water.
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 that absorbs water and softens into the cooked grains.
- Boiling water
- Cooks the rice by hydrating and heating the grains evenly.
The step that matters
Boil for 1 hour without stirring. Stirring releases starch from the grains, which makes the rice gluey. Leaving it alone keeps the grains separate and intact while they absorb water.
“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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