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Boiled Rice

Boiled Rice is cooked by washing, boiling with salt, then draining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Boiled Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the rice in plenty of cold water.

Cook

  1. Add the rice to the boiling water with salt.

  2. Boil for 20 minutes.

  3. Drain the rice in a colander.

Serve

  1. Shake the rice into the center of the dish of chops without stirring.

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
Its starch absorbs water and swells as it cooks, becoming tender and forming the body of the dish.

The step that matters

Add the rice to the boiling water. Adding the rice to water that is already boiling keeps the cooking temperature high, so the grains cook evenly and the water keeps boiling while the rice softens.

“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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