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Rice Soup

Rice Soup is made by boiling rice, straining it, then simmering it in broth with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Rice Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Wash the rice in warm water by hand.

  2. Place the rice in a saucepan and cover with water.

  3. Boil for two hours, then strain the rice.

Make the soup

  1. Add the strained rice to hot broth and simmer for another hour.

  2. Season with salt if needed, then serve.

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 body of the soup and thickens the broth as its starch releases during long cooking.

“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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