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To Boil Rice Southern Style

A simple boiled rice dish cooked with water, salt, and rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Boil Rice Southern Style

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Bring a quart of water to a rapid boil.

  2. Add 1 teaspoon of salt.

  3. Wash 1 cup of rice.

Cook

  1. Add the washed rice slowly to the boiling water.

  2. Boil for about 20 minutes until the rice is soft.

  3. Drain the rice through a colander.

  4. Rinse with hot water to separate the grains.

Rest

  1. Cover the rice with a cloth.

  2. Let it sit in a warm place for 10 minutes to swell.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Rice
Starch that softens and swells in boiling water to form the cooked grain texture.
Water
Cooking medium that heats the rice and lets the starch gelatinize and soften.

The step that matters

Add the washed rice slowly to the boiling water. Adding rice gradually keeps the water at a rolling boil. A sudden drop in temperature slows cooking and can leave the grains unevenly cooked and gummy.

“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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