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Boiled Rice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Boiled Rice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick and wash the rice thoroughly in cold water, keeping the water until ready to cook.

  2. Prepare a saucepan of water with a little coarse sea salt and bring it to a boil.

  3. Sprinkle in the rice and boil hard for 20 minutes, keeping the pan covered.

  4. Remove from heat and drain off the water.

  5. Set the saucepan aside with the lid off to allow the rice to cool and the grains to separate.

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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