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Boiled Rice

Boiled rice is cooked by boiling rice in water until tender.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Bring a pot of water to a rapid boil.

  2. Add the rice and cook for 15 minutes.

  3. Strain the rice into a dish.

Dry and serve

  1. Wipe the saucepan dry.

  2. Return the drained rice to the saucepan.

  3. Place the saucepan over gentle heat with a cloth over it for a few minutes.

  4. Serve without covering the dish.

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 starchy body of the dish, which softens and swells as it cooks in boiling 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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