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Boiled Rice

A simple boiled rice prepared by cooking washed rice in salted boiling water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bring 4 quarts of water to a boil in a large pot.

  2. Add 1 cup of washed rice to the boiling water.

  3. Boil the rice uncovered until tender, then drain.

  4. Save the cooking water for soup.

  5. Blanch the rice with boiling water and add 1 teaspoon of salt.

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
Absorbs water as it cooks, swelling and softening into tender grains.
Water
Serves as the cooking liquid that hydrates and softens the rice grains.

“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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