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Boiled Rice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Boiled Rice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a large saucepan three parts full of water and bring it to a rapid boil.

  2. Add the rice gradually while stirring with a fork.

  3. Keep boiling vigorously for 10 minutes, stirring continuously.

  4. Pour the rice into a wire sieve and run cold water through it for 3 minutes.

  5. Return the rice to a dry saucepan and separate the grains with a fork.

  6. Place it on the stove to dry, stirring occasionally. Do not cover the rice while drying.

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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