Name: Steamed Rice
Ingredients: 1 cup rice; 2 teaspoons salt; 2½ cups boiling water

Steamed Rice

Ingredients

1 cup rice
2 teaspoons salt
2½ cups boiling water

Directions

Pick over and wash the rice.
Put the rice in a bowl; add salt and boiling water.
Steam over rapidly boiling water until tender, about 45 minutes.

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 main body of the dish, cooking to a tender, fluffy texture as it absorbs the water.
Boiling water: Supplies the liquid that the rice absorbs and that softens the grains as they cook.

“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.