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Rice-water

Rice water is the liquid remaining after cooking rice, used as a beverage or cooking liquid.

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

Rice-water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 4 cups of water in a pot.

  2. Add 1 cup of rice and cook until tender.

  3. Strain out the rice grains.

  4. Use the remaining water as needed.

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
Releases starch into the water, giving the liquid its body and cloudy look.

“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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